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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Prayer according to one ancient definition “is keeping company with God.” And that really throws us right in at the deep end. Prayer is not another part for us to act another skill for us to master another subject to study for an examination: it is a relationship and a relationship with God. And even in this age of computerised dating one can only learn to keep company with someone by keeping company with them and accepting the consequences. Any relationship except the most superficial affects and changes us; it challenges us to respect the freedom the mystery the otherness of the other and perhaps even more disturbing it will sooner or later bring to light our own freedom the mystery of ourselves the unknownness and unpredictability of ourselves. How we respond to such a challenge to such a bringing to light will in very large measure decide whether we grow and mature in life or whether we shrivel up. And it is surely a fact that while some people are genuinely fraid of the dark all of us are rather afraid of the light. As the archbishop says in T. S. Eliot’s play Murderin the Cathedral Human kind cannot bear very much reality. (LL)