title: Praying the Attributes of God: Daily Meditations on Knowing and Experiencing God
author:  Ann Spangler 
description: At some point in our lives, many of us have fallen victim to an imbalanced, distorted view of God. Sometimes we see him as a hard godall-seeing, all-powerful, and all-knowing, but not someone we can trust or get close to. Other times hes depicted as much softeralways tolerant and not too demanding, but not much better than we are. What we need is the perspective only God can givea true and deeper vision of who he is as the almighty, everlasting God, who is holy and yet merciful, jealous and yet loving, righteous and yet forgiving.<br /><br />Let us not settle for a vision of God that is thin and anemic, one that will fall to pieces when life becomes more difficult than we can bear. Instead, let us pray that God will draw us out of our complacency so that we might hunger and thirst for more of him.<br /><br />As you read through this book, I hope you will share my sense that learning more about Gods attributes is like drawing water from a deep wellthe kind that can refresh and invigorate your faith. In the days and weeks ahead, may God give you the boldness to prayerfully insist that he nourish, sustain, and strengthen you with a clearer revelation of who he is.<br /><br />Ann Spangler
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  If you delight in reflecting on the paradoxes so often thrust upon our path to spiritual 
  awareness, you will welcome the thoughts and imagery presented in “Invocations”. Anthea 
  Church offers her  explorations of relationship with God in meditative prose coloured by 
  everyday experience. She has written this volume for herself as well as others:
  ...to anchor the eternal in my mind, to breathe life into the words I have heard and 
  spoken already, to make of them a subtle existence that hangs peacefully, like the lining 
  in a coat, inside my physical life...
  I know that while we are souls filled with the scars and sweetness of experience, 
  together with a few unaffected distinctions,  
  he is all distinction. He is peace, purity, wisdom, light... he does not wait to come into 
  being, he always is...
  When God plays with you, the knowledge I have described ceases to be theory, it 
  becomes experience... a personal treasure.
  In her direct addresses to God, in relation