Prayers for daily life
Malcolm Elliott reviews a book of prayers by Ray Salmon
Many of us find difficulty with prayer. We want to give thanks. We hope for peace and for an end to the sufferings of others. We may find it easy to offer up spontaneous thanks to God for the blessings of this world, but to engage in daily prayer is to invite all sorts of questions about the nature of God. We face the stark fact of our own trivial existence against the infinite wonder of creation. How can we truly believe that God hears our prayers, and if so what kind of a cosmic switchboard can cope with such a profusion of importunate mortals, while still keeping an eye on his ever-increasing plethora of galaxies?
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