{"id":61,"date":"2009-08-05T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T08:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/08\/god-uses-heart-recognition-software.html"},"modified":"2009-08-05T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T08:32:04","slug":"god-uses-heart-recognition-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2009\/08\/god-uses-heart-recognition-software.html","title":{"rendered":"God uses “heart recognition software”"},"content":{"rendered":"

New experience: I am writing this post using the voice recognition software in my computer. I’ve never used this feature before and it is a weird experience.  <\/span>When I first began to write from a keyboard it took time for me to begin to think through my fingers. Thinking out loud is a completely different process.  <\/span>To think as I speak forces me to be very intentional about what I say.  <\/span>I have a hunch that this discipline may be a very good exercise in learning to consider my words carefully.  <\/span>For every mumble and stammer does carry a consequence.<\/font><\/p>\n

My challenge is that I’m relating with a machine and not a person. The computer registers every sound I make and interprets it through its own preprogrammed assumptions.  <\/span>And what the computer hears very often is not what I said, or at least intended to say.  <\/span>This last sentence, before I corrected it read, “And wait the computer ears furry often is not wait I sad…”   <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Prayer to God is not so mercilessly exacting. God is no computer.  <\/span>He is a person I can dialog with intimately. No artificial intelligence can register my nonverbal cues, my moods and body language and all the subtle nuances that betray the secret ministries of my soul.  <\/span>God knows all these things. As Jesus promised, God knows what I need even before I ask. He invites me to speak in prayer because it makes conversation. But he doesn’t need my words in order to register my heart. He knows me better than I know myself.<\/font><\/p>\n

Once I finish rambling out this experiment I will have to go back and correct words and in some cases whole sentences so that you the reader can made some sense of my stream of consciousness.  <\/span>Or perhaps for greater impact I should just leave it as it is! That would make the point, and frustrate you in the process! <\/font><\/p>\n

Praise be! God is far more than a voice recognition system. <\/span>God hears and responds and coaxes from me much more than what I say; he works with me until I say what I truly mean. I believe that prayer is the place where we all learn to truly talk. After all, we’re just infants in the eternal scope of time. We’re honing a skill we’ll be using for all eternity.  <\/span>As we muddle through our efforts, God listens, reads between the lines and then perfectly esponds, sometimes with nothing more and nothing than less than a nonverbal, but perfectly timed, smile.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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