Our weakness

I saw an article once on interview technique and how to deal with the question “What is your greatest weakness?” They suggest saying something like “I'm a perfectionist and some people don't cope” or suggesting something that won't affect the job “I was never any good at sport”. What you mustn't do is admit a weakness. Well, may be in an interview it isn't a good idea to be too specific (I suggest saying you have too many to specify one) but we must recognise our weakness and our need for God to strengthen us. We must see that others are the same and need our prayers too.

Solzhenitsyn's Ivan Denisovich on prayer

There’s a wonderful line in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, set in the horror of a Soviet prison camp. One day Ivan is praying silently with his eyes closed when a fellow prisoner notices him and says, ‘Prayers won't help you get out of here any faster.’ Opening his eyes, Ivan answers, 'I do not pray to get out of prison, I pray to do the will of God.’ That is how we should be praying.