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The Night I Asked God to Make It Rain

On fear, divine love, and the radical freedom of surrender

Adam G. · 14 chapters

During a night of Kavanah meditation, I asked God for one small sign: rain. Nothing happened. Twelve chapters on what that silence revealed: the fear underneath the need for certainty, and the freedom of remaining directed toward the Father whether it rains or not.

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Contents

  1. ·Introduction

Part One · The request

  1. 1The Night I Asked for Rain
  2. 2The Hidden Desire for Control

Part Two · The limits of knowing

  1. 3The Prison of Knowing
  2. 4Simone Weil and the Courage to Wait
  3. 5Am I Receiving Love?
  4. 6What If Nothing Supernatural Ever Happens?

Part Three · Power, will, and fear

  1. 7The Difference Between Power and Spirituality
  2. 8The Most Radical Exercise of Free Will
  3. 9Love Is Connection. Fear Is Separation.

Part Four · Returning

  1. 10The Practice of Kavanah
  2. 11The Fear of Forgetting
  3. 12If It Never Rains
  1. ·Notes and further reading