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Abba Father

Or, The Religion of Everyday Life

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Abba Father

By: William DeWitt Hyde
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 TO walk and talk with God, as child with father, friend with friend; lifting up life into the light of His love—this is religion. Instead of criticism of it, commentary upon it, controversy over it, philosophy about it, exhortation to it, of which the world is full, this little book offers religion itself, just as one would offer a picture, a story or a song.

Real religion is the offering up of each man’s life, in its concrete setting, day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, to the guidance and keeping of God. Thus each man’s religion, like his life, is individual, unique.

Midway between the concrete religion of active life and the abstract, composite liturgy, there is a form of worship adapted to die individual in the quiet hour. It takes a single aspect of our common experience at a time; holds it before the mind in logical development and sustained attention; and thus with mind and heart together lifts it into the light of the divine. As a result, one finds that when in concrete life a case arises which belongs to the class of experiences which has been made the subject of such communion with the Father, one’s attitude towards that case is changed. In other words prayer of this sort is answered, if less obviously and directly, no less satisfactorily and surely, than prayer which offers the concrete situation of the immediate moment directly to the divine control.

These essay-meditations, or sermon- prayers, are the outcome of a year of enforced rest; cut off from ordinary work on the one hand, and attendance upon public worship on the other. They were conceived in the gardens and chapels of Oxford; and written in Switzerland, at Burghalde, the site of a mediaeval castle near Oberhofen on Lake Thun. If they shall reveal to any one the simplicity and comprehensiveness, the modesty and grandeur, the peace and power, of the Christian life, my period of exile will not have been unfruitful. Christian Living Christianity Devotionals
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