I have jumped on it.  Halim had told me about this book a while back and recently I’ve heard others mention it and my friend, Becca, has been blogging about it.  Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers.  I thought it would be good to pick it up as an encouragement during this time when I feel I’m learning a lot about prayer.  I love the language that they use – thees, thous, thys.  I love how everything that they pray is saturated with Scripture – these people must have read and memorized their Bibles for-real style.  I think I’m going to try to read through one of these prayers a day and maybe pray about some of the things that I read.

This morning I read this part about God’s restraining grace in our sin:

“O God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man’s creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate.  This, by bitter experience, thou hast taught me concerning myself.”