Brennan Manning - Dear Abba: Morning & Evening Prayer
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Raw vulnerability can be scary. It can also save our lives. In this book, Brennan Manning has laid out a month of honest prayers to God, whom he affectionately calls Abba, in an easy-to-use format that can guide your own prayers.
Each day contains morning and evening prayers coupled with Scripture and excerpts from Mannings contemporary spiritual classicsin a modern-day collection of psalms, complete with cries for help, expressions of wonder, and invitations into the comforting mercy of God.
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Dear Abba
Copyright 2013 by Brennan Manning
Cover art to the electronic edition copyright 2013 by Bondfire Books, LLC.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
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Electronic edition published 2013 by Bondfire Books LLC, Colorado. ISBN 9781625392794
This collection of devotions is structurally based on the classic morning and evening approach used in The Book of Common Prayer. I have gathered three pieces for each entry, adhering to the promise of Matthew 18:20where two or three gather in My name, there I am with them.
These devotions are intended for personal use. You can use them in a group setting if you choose, but thats not how I envisioned them. My prayer is these words will push you closer to that place of quiet rest, near to the heart of Abba, just the two of you.
Each entry concludes with a prayer. Ive addressed them all to Abba, but you may have another name for God. Just remember: pray as you can, not as you cant. And if you call Jesus Goodness, he will be good to you; if you call him Love, he will be loving to you; but if you call him Compassion, he will know that you know.
Under the Mercy,
Brennan Manning
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:4-7
To live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness is to let go of cares and concerns, to stop organizing means to ends and simply be in each moment of awareness as an end in itself We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of our past history. All the wrong turns in the past, the detours, mistakes, moral lapses, everything that is irrevocably ugly or painful, melts and dissolves in the warm glow of accepted tenderness. As theologian Kevin OShea writes, One rejoices in being unfrightened to be open to the healing presence, no matter what one might be or what one might have done.
A Glimpse of Jesus
Dear Abba,
The voices in my head this morning are hounding me with the recurring moments Ive turned away from You because I could not part with all my rich young ruler wealth, the numerous days Ive Judas-kissed Your cheek in the garden of betrayal, and the countless times Ive warmed myself by a traitors fire and declared like Peter I do not know Him! But then Your accepting voice scatters them all with a mercy fierce and ultimately kind, and I remember that I am loved. I want to simply be in You this day.
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16
Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone. The mere presence of that special someone in a crowded room brings an inward sigh of relief and a strong sense of feeling safe. How would you respond if I asked you this question: Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you? If you could answer with gut-level honesty, Oh, yes, my Abba is very fond of me, you would experience a serene compassion for yourself that approximates the meaning of tenderness.
Abbas Child
Dear Abba,
Ive come to the place where Im letting You love me more each day, but I still struggle with letting You like me. I realize that has much more to do with me than with You, not to mention my ongoing cycle of attraction to tenderness, then repulsion, then back again. Thank you for your still, small advances toward me displaying that yes, my Abba is very fond of me! Please help my unbelief. I want to rest safe in Your arms.
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:1-3
For the disciple of Jesus, being like a child means accepting oneself as being of little account, unimportant. This understanding of ourselves changes not only the way we view our worth, but also the way we view Gods saving grace. If a little Jewish child received a ten-cent allowance from her father at the end of the week, she did not regard it as payment for sweeping the house, doing the dishes, and baking the bread. It was a wholly unmerited gift, a gesture of her fathers absolute liberality.
The Importance of Being Foolish
Dear Abba,
Your liberal gift of grace stands in stark contrast to this worlds economy of work and wage. Its much more than the difference between black and white; its like the difference between apples and engine blocks. I want to start this day with an awareness of Your absolute liberality. As the day rolls on and I regrettably slip back into trying to earn Your favor, forgive me I pray, and gently remind me that I am the child and You are the Father, and it is Your kingdom I desirenot mine.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacobs well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
John 4:4-6
Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination. How? By studying the life experiences of Jesus and relating them to our own; by poring over the Gospels and seeing the different scenarios not as historical events but as contemporaneous happenings reproducing themselves in our daily experience. Do we feel dry, weary, filled with a sense of failure? In the twinkle of an eye we can relate our mood to Jesus Who one day felt the same way and collapsed exhausted by a well in Samaria. I can invite this tired Jesus into my very discouragement: Jesus, here I am, whipped, wiped out, in the pits, and all Yours.
The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
Dear Abba,
I feel like Ive had to go through Samaria a dozen times today. Im tired from too many trips to town, each time greeted by thirsty and hungry people, veritable Humpty-Dumptys whove fallen off the wall and want me to round up horse and men and put them back together again. But I had to walk away; I just could not give any more. So Jesus, here I am, and this is certainly not a nursery rhyme. Im wiped outsomewhere beyond the pitsbut Im all Yours, and I believe You understand.
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