To Find Jesus, Take the Indirect Road
PHOENIX (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido News Network) May 18, 2005 (Re-published October 1, 2009) — I was raised a Roman Catholic and automatically with rote memory, if I say an Our Father, without thinking, without pause, I continue on with a Hail Mary. We have been conditioned to believe if we want to find God, we must pray continuously. Years of saying Rosaries leaves me empty and I think praying to God in this fashion, we automatically superficially pray without deep profound thought.
It is not only Catholics who fall into these practices. I am continuously amazed how some of my Protestant business acquaintances can recite verse after verse of scripture and yet are some of the most bigoted and prejudice people in our community. They too superficially pray reading the scriptures.
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