Pray for Purity

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Let’s talk about praying for purity.

I know some people might experience resistance when I say that.

A lot of you might know the song by Robby Williams where he says “Lord Make me pure, but not yet.” It’s such a good refrain for a pop song because its so relatable. So many of us want to be good but we don’t want to give up the habits of our wayward path.

I am no stranger to that.

If we trace the etymology not of sin, cause if you chase that back it has a weird etymology, the opposite of what you might expect.

The true one or one that is truly guilty. If we chase it back just so of course in English we have the world peccadillo in English which is from Spanish pecadillo to mean a little sin. To latin pecare is actually a word that means trip on. Along your path you trip on a stone.

Not something to blame, not something to feel guilty about. If you want to there’s the option to feel guilty. But we don’t necessarily need to indulge too much in that or suffer through that. The point is also in a lot of languages you trace back the word for a word like sin it also means missing the mark like asdasdasdasd talks about, a lot of the worlds and metaphors we use actually trace back to throwing spears or archery.

There’s that once upon a time there was something so important to human culture about being able to throw things. Talk about a trajectory or project into the future. These are metaphors about throwing same as missing the mark.

We might continue to miss the mark for a long time which from my perspective is perfectly fine.

But what if we were to pray for purity?

What if we were to say without reservation but not yet.

What if we were to surrender ourselves to the idea that we could be pure.

The idea that we could be transformed to become something a bit different, a bit more plain. Leaving behind those vices which we believe would cause us pleasure but ultimately might cause frustration which might not help us maintain the finest alignment with our own spirits.

What if? What might happen to you if you did without reservation sit and think and ask that deepest part of yourself that you might be pure, that you could be pure that you would be pure.

What parts of you might be left behind?

What parts of you might you take off like an old coat which no longer serves you?

Full of holes doesn’t protect you from the wind anyway. What might you leave behind and never look back?

What might you become?

What might you realize you already are when you pray for purity?