Peter Kreeft - Talking about God vs Talking to God

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Also found a transcript of this! "It's amazing how many words are spoken about prayer, and how few are spoken in prayer. Look at Job again; look at all those words of the three friends. They all talk about God; they never talk to him. Job's confused but he talks to him. And that's why when God shows up, he says to Job, the heretic who shook his fist in God's face and said, "You bloody butcher, how dare you get off running the world this way, " – he said to Job, "I like the way you talk to me." And he said to the three friends, who said, "Oh, God is great, and God is good; let us thank him for our food. Amen", and they just draped a little more poetry around it, and were very orthodox, and everything they say can be found in the rest of the Bible – he said, "I'm mad at you. You didn't speak rightly about me." Why? Well, because he was present and they treated him as absent. Suppose right now, while I was talking, two of you should break out in loud, animated conversation about Dr. Kreeft: "Do you think he's sane?" "No, I think he's insane." "He's sane." "He's insane." "Nah." "But he's written all these books." "He's written more books than he's ever read."

Well, I would be slightly amused, and slightly annoyed that you interrupted a good thing, but most of all, I would be annoyed that you talked about me as if I were absent. It's a quite reasonable hypothesis that I am insane – in fact, I just proved it. But to say this, it's like – teenage girls often complain about their parents discussing them: "What are we ever going to do about Sally? She's …" "Hello, Mom; hello, I'm here!" Well, God's doing that all the time: "What are we going to do about God?" "Hello, I'm here; talk to me." All the time; he's here all the time. Talk to him all the time. There's lots of stuff going on the unconscious. You can talk to God while you're doing other stuff. Well, we better learn it, because that's what we're going to be doing in heaven."