prayer - trust & communication

At in.transition. last night (Monday, Aug 11) God was at work. I cannot speak for everyone in the group, but I will speak for myself. God was challenging, teaching, encouraging, building relationships and enjoying it. For the month of August, in.transition. is focusing on prayer. Why does God want us to pray? What is effective prayer? How do you pray? Examples of prayer? We are looking at questions like this, and our first week we focused on trusting God in prayer and to communicate with God (which essentially defines prayer in a broad sense: to personally communicate with God). Our night started with...prayer. We then simply started talking about trust and communication followed by a nice little hike. But ther was a trick: we had partners, and one partner had their eyes closed while the other had the role of communicator - directing where to go. Through the woods, down hills, up hills, around in circles, up steps, down steps...it was an adventure. The coolest part - our discussion after. We chatted about our experiences. Comments such as "my partner had full control and I had to completely trust them with...in a way...my life" or "communication was the key, when we didn't communicate well, it felt like I was about to hit a tree" - oh how well these relate to our prayer life and our relationship with God. We need to trust Him completely in our prayers. We need to communicate all the time. Confidence is built through communication. Successful communication builds trust. Key elements to our relationship with our heavenly awesome loving Father.
We finished our night off with a great time at Kelsey's. We are labelled "regulars" with our very own waitress - Mallory...its a blast every week!

Anyways, a little different style blog this time. A little glimpse into a night at in.transition.