I have referred to a little devotion book on my desk before – it is a daily devotion put together by Eugene Peterson entitled, A Year With Jesus. The reading for March 1 was titled “Father.” The passage was a very familiar one – the Model Prayer, Matthew 6:9. In that devotion, Peterson offered this prayer:
Our Father: reveal yourself to me not as I have imagined you and not as others have stereotyped you, but as you really are: creator of all that is, loving redeemer of all your people. Amen
What image of God do you have in your mind and heart when you pray? Our minds naturally try and paint a picture of abstract ideas. Because we have not seen God, we tend to think of God in whatever image we can imagine or in a way that has been described to us by someone else. But do we really want to know what God is really like?
Can you pray this prayer today?
Clay in the Hands 
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