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Grace note: Gratitude and prayer

In his compact book Before God, George Stroup observes that we live in a time when many people no longer understand that their lives are lived coram Deo, before God. Stroup is particularly good in talking about gratitude as the essence of Christian practice. On that topic he quotes Karl Barth: “Gratitude is the precise creaturely counterpart to the grace of God. “ He also observes about prayer that “if one wants to know what a person truly believes about God, it is not so much what he or she says about God as what he or she says to God.”

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