Our Prayer Must Be Expansive
Good prayer is expansive. What do I mean by this? First, our prayer must be as wide as the world. No one is to be excluded from our prayer. I love the hymn that says, “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea.” Can we say, there’s a wideness in our […]
Praying beyond our Windows
The Talmud says, “Never pray in a room without windows.” I don’t think we have to take this injunction literally. But I do think we must follow the deeper implication of these words and always pray expansively, that is, with the larger world in mind. In her book, The Breadth of the Soul: Reflections on […]
