When I was deployed to Kuwait, I took a book on CD with me. MP3 players weren't popular yet, and I was worried about scratching up my CD's with all of that sand, but Talmage came through with his book "Jesus the Christ."
I remember walking around on guard duty a few days or maybe a week before the invasion of Iraq. I was listening to the eloquent words through my headpnones. And I heard one of the most profound statements on Prayer that I have ever heard or read.
I've picked up the book recently and last night I made it to the same chapter.
I'll share my favorite part now.
"It is well to know that prayer is not compounded of words, words that may fail to express what one desires to say, words that so often cloak inconsistenceis, words that may have no deeper source that the physical organs of speech, words that may be spoken to impress mortal ears. The dumb may pray, and that too with the eloquence that prevails in heaven. Prayer is made up of heart throbs and the righteous yearnings of the soul, of supplication based on the realization of need, of contrition and pure desire."
It is just as beautiful today as it was nine years ago.
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