Daily Lectio Divina: Be importunate

Episode 759

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, an American writer and theologian. Today we’re reading another selection from “Prayer.”

Be importunate, Jesus says––not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God’s door before he’ll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there’s no way of getting to your door. “Ravish my heart,” John Donne wrote. But God will not usually ravish. He will only court.

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