My morning blinding flash of the obvious: To pray for God to have my back is a denial of my belief in God.
Thinking that through, I come again to the realization that the most important part of spiritual growth may be in detaching from my own ideas, my own opinions, in trust that God does have my back because God cannot not have my back.
Meister Eckhart is quoted as saying, "Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow -- for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort."
Those last three words are the telling ones for me. We learn fairly early not to pray for outward wealth, but inward comfort? I had always thought that was what we were supposed to pray for!
It was when I learned the cosmic comfort of thanking God for everything...inward comfort or inward discomfort...makes no never mind. Our "thank You" frees our blocked channel, opens us, to let God out...to go before us and "make the crooked places straight."
Thank You.
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