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Tolkien's 10 Ways to Grow in Prayer
Profound Wisdom from a Spiritual Master
Kaleb Hammond
Jun 20
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Throughout his letters, Tolkien offers 10 ways to grow in your prayer life, especially as spiritual direction given to his children. These tips are:
1) Pray with Hope
If anguish were visible, almost the whole of this benighted planet would be enveloped in a dense dark vapour, shrouded from the amazed vision of the heavens!... But there is still some hope that things may be better for us, even on the temporal plane, in the mercy of God. And though we need all our natural human courage and guts (the vast sum of human courage and endurance is stupendous, isn’t it?) and all our religious faith to face the evil that may befall us (as it befalls others, if God wills) still we may pray and hope. I do.[1]
No matter how bad things may seem, through the theological virtue of
Let’s talk about the beating of Jesus
RapporteraNot the soft version many people imagine. The real one. Because the cross did not start at Calvary. The suffering began long before the nails ever touched His hands. When Jesus was handed over to be crucified, the Roman soldiers first scourged Him. This was not a simple whipping. The Romans used a weapon called a flagrum or flagellum. It was a whip with multiple leather strands. At the end of each strand were pieces of bone, metal, and sharp hooks designed to tear flesh. The purpose was not just punishment. It was destruction of the body. The victim was tied to a post, stretched so the back was exposed. Each strike caused the metal and bone to dig into the skin. When the whip was pulled back, it ripped flesh away from the body. Early historians and medical researchers describe that Roman scourging often exposed muscle tissue and sometimes even bone. Isaiah prophesied this hundreds of years before it happened. Isaiah 52:14 says “His appearance