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My prayer ladder
I currently own a cleaning business, and I always bring along a stepladder so that I can reach high places that need cleaning. But that’s not the only ladder I have with me. I also carry a spiritual “prayer ladder.”
Such a ladder was described in the biblical account of Jacob when he came to rest at nightfall after fleeing from his brother, Esau, whom he had badly wronged (see Genesis 28:10–15). In the story, Jacob has a dream: “And behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it” (verse 12). God then gives Jacob reassurances as to his stature and the meaning of his life.
In her book Retrospection and Introspection, Mary Baker Eddy comments on this concept, “Of this also rest assured, that books and teaching are but a ladder let down from the heaven of Truth and Love, upon which angelic thoughts ascend and descend, bearing on their pinions of light the Christ-spirit” (p. 85).
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