This week at the Pancake House
This week I heard part of a documentary about the legendary eastern Canadian fiddle player Buddy MacMaster. As part of the doc, the producers had invited another fiddle player to join them by remote from a distant studio, and the challenge for Buddy was to tell the audience where he was from just by how he played. He rose to the occasion, correctly identifying not only the region the player was from but who it was!
That might seem like just a musicians “party trick”, but I found myself quite emotionally moved by it. Weird, right? So of course I had to probe that. The closest I can come to why that event got at my heart so directly was the idea that we long to be deeply known, and part of that longing is can be seen in our desire to have someone understand us even when we aren’t communicating with words. To me, that sounds a lot like what prayer is.
This week we’ll be exploring prayer in general, and in particular the prayer that Jesus offered as a response to the question “How should we pray?”.
Peace,
Tim Plett