I love Calvin & Hobbes, they teach us so much about ourselves. I wanted to get some interaction on this comic strip, because I believe that everybody at some point in life thinks this way about prayer.
This prayer is Calvin’s version of the Serenity Prayer, and for those of you who aren’t familiar with it….
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
I trust as you compare the two you can see the differences. So the question is why do we pray like Calvin more often than not? Is it our selfishness? Our reluctance to rely on God to lead in our lives? Or perhaps as Calvin states, the belief that life is more interesting if we focus our attentions on our wants and desires? Maybe a culmination of all of that.
Now, in a shameless attempt to draw in conversation on this topic, I will share my thoughts on prayer as you do. Leave your comments on these questions, raise new ones, and let’s discuss the topic of prayer that Calvin so boldly puts into our laps.
Now, in a shameless attempt to draw in conversation on this topic, I will share my thoughts on prayer as you do. Leave your comments on these questions, raise new ones, and let’s discuss the topic of prayer that Calvin so boldly puts into our laps.
1 comment:
I'm not so sure that "accepting the things that we cannot change" is really as pious as it sounds.
Isn't it the angst that we feel when we grasp our own powerlessless that compels us to pray to the God who can change everything?
It seems to me that some of the most memorable prayers in history were offered by individuals who refused to accept what appeared to be inevitable: a barren and broken Hannah in 1 Sam. 1; a despondent Jonah in the whale's belly; a passionate Jesus on the Mount of Olives.
Maybe Calvin's on to something?
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