Seeking prayer as a conversation often raises expectations of a dynamic dialogue between us and God. Sometimes, though, the dynamic involves large amounts of stillness, and that’s something we’re not quite used to.

Especially when God asks us some rather awkward questions in that stillness.

In our exploration of reckless prayer, we enter the story of Elijah, who experienced such a stillness during a particular crisis in his life. We enter his story at 1 Kings 19 …

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We had several reckless participants at this week’s prayer gathering at the Belchertown UCC’s parish house after service We began with a fun ice-breaker exercise where we all sat in a circle with one person in the middle who would call out “step out if you’ve ever done …”, and then whoever had done the same thing before (”white water rafting”, “been in a musical”, etc) would raise their hand. The person in the middle then got to choose who to swap places with.

After that, we reviewed our thoughts from the previous gathering by discussing the art of conversation, and by discussing the insights we’ve had on the act of conversing with God by thinking about how we relate to others in conversations.

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