The Empty Chair

A short reflection by Brent Snyder on Christ as our life.

Transcript

For years, this was how I pictured prayer. I was here. God was over there. I had the needs. He had the answers. And somehow, my words had to cross the space between us. But Christ is already my life. We have been made one. His life is the life within me, before I find a word to say. Perhaps I have been praying from a picture that no longer tells the truth. I still speak. I still ask. Sometimes I am simply quiet. But I am not calling across an empty room. And when I get up from the chair, our communion has not ended.

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