The freight train to heart led.

[IainH]

For those of you stumbling onto this, here's a rough character profile of Radix Fidem mainstays:

Ed Hurst - prolific patriarch and wise, huggable cynic who puts up with the rest of us
forrealone - the patient earth mother soul who also puts up with us
Iain - the crazy uncle who writes things as above, probably useful in a fight, would pray for hours on end for you
jaybreak - the punk elder-in-training who "tries his best," which is code for "figuring it out as he goes along," which is code for "screws stuff up a lot."

 1st Thessalonians 5:17, St Paul I like to put the St in front because he is the first elder of the Gentiles and as such deserves the honorific, especially seeing as how his descendents screwed up his teachings. Back to the verse, it's simple enough even I can remember it. PRAYWITHOUTCEASING. See all bunched together like the T church would have seen it, except of course in koine greek. Westernism has difficulty with this verse because we know they take it literally. Ha Ha Guffaw! Idiots! An "attitude" of prayer , it makes NO sense even by western standards. So for those still in the mire, here goes. Parable Warning! 
   Imagine you are me kicked back in my recliner.
   I look out my window and see the Blue Ridge, they are bursting with flora and fauna.
  Deep beneath them trapped in folds of rock is a lot of water.
  The water bubbles up and gives me clean water.
Say Whaaat? Well, that's how it works in a word picture, it's not a riddle. Jesus said often he who has ears let them hear, if you have an active spirit and a revived heart it's simple.
Explain later if needed.