... attacking armies, he and his people went to the temple and prayed, "Lord, we do not know what to do but our eyes are upon Thee." Some, however, are too proud to admit they need God’s help. When Joan Crawford was on her death bed, her housekeeper was sitting beside her bed and softly praying. The very last words of Joan were, "Damn it, don’t you dare ask God to help me!" Contrast this with Augustus Toplady’s prayer in Rock of Ages: Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling. Naked, come to ...
... man was very angry that he had cancer and was not being healed of it. Very angry. "Why me?" he kept asking. Crawford is said to have responded to the man, "Why not you?" There is a turn in the process of accepting Christ. We tip ... things. Some people make a lot of noise about Christ-centeredness and are not the real thing. I like what I heard the Benedictine theologian, Joan Chittister, say, on the subject of "spirituality": "If it's the real thing (and sometimes it is), it does not turn the mind off; it ...
