A Beckoning World


 November 2020, Thanksgiving has passed. It is Monday morning. I am with my daughter at her workplace. We sit in a kitchen, across from each other on a 3 1/2 foot diameter wooden table. She works at her computer, designing a house for us to live in. 

Chapel Hill Handel's Messiah Open Sing: 

    https://cvnc.org/reviews/2002/december/ChapelHill37.html

https://universityumc.church/event/annual-open-sing-handels-messiah/

We aim to move up in the world of sanctification. The only way we know how to "do" this is to repent and enter into prayer. Even so, the world beckons with desperate intensity that we do anything but pray. What is it about the world that it should so dislike prayer?  

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