Berikut adalah kutipan dari buku "Prayer - Does it make any Difference", yang menurut saya sangat powerful dan dapat mengubah paradigma seseorang tentang apa yang namanya doa.
A hospice chaplain told of a patient who asked to see him because he is in great emotional distress. He was in the last stage of cancer and he was feeling very guilty because he had spent the previous night ranting, raving and swearing to God.
The following morning he felt dreadful. He imagined that his chance of eternal life had now been lost forever, and that God would never forgive one who had so cursed and abused him.
The chaplain asked the patient, “What do you think the opposite of Love?”
The man replied, “Hate.”
Very wisely, the chaplain replied. “No, the opposite of love is indifference. You have not been indifferent to God, or you would never have spent the night talking to him, honestly telling him what was in your heart and mind. Do you know the Christian word that describes what you have bee doing? The word is PRAYER.’ You have spent the night praying.”From Prayer - Does it make any Difference by Phillip Yancey, page 100.
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