Four Ways to Pray: Borrowing Someone Else’s Words
Prayer can be me borrowing someone else’s words, letting the fullness of their words fill the emptiness left by the absence of my own words. Like a respirator breathing for me until my lungs heal and strengthen enough to breathe alone, someone else’s words can pray for me until my soul and spirit heal and… Read More »Four Ways to Pray: Borrowing Someone Else’s Words
Four Ways to Pray: Overview
I’ll be honest–for three years I’ve struggled with prayer more than at any other time in my life. During that span, three pathogens of deep-seated personal battles, unexpected professional challenges, and COVID-related social and cultural upheaval bred a toxin infecting my prayer life, leaving it feeble and anemic. There have been days when the best… Read More »Four Ways to Pray: Overview