1. Trash day 2. Prayer for enemies 3. Dealing with haters 4. Prayer in spirit 5. Following guidance

Previous post: Some prayer exercises Monday morning, Pastor asked me to pray about some anger management issues among our youth. Some have been somatizing their anger, e.g. having seizures; others have got in fights at school. Tuesday morning it came to me that I have already reported a number of techniques to use, in the previous post above. The new notions that came to me are here below. It won’t be feasible for me to teach these to the children myself, since Youth Grou

To get from Point A to Point B, you must move. At this moment, as I write this, I am living in a pit. I am homeless. I face a choice: do I want to get out, or stay here? I could choose to stay here, and continue to just take whatever the world chooses to throw at me; some folk toss in blessings, some toss in trash. There is the question of what to do with the trash I myself create. And what to do with my No. 1s and No. 2s. If I choose to get out — that means work. I must firs

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of poverty and homelessness. Getting out at the top represents a return to the normal life of the American mainstream. I didn’t start with a ladder in there, but I decided to add one to symbolize the various structures and tools that others have made available to me — and eliminate the possibility of clawing at loose earth.