Thursday of the Fourth Week in Lent
The prayer is answered only of the one who has lifted her heart in it.
Rarely does prayer come easy for me. I sit in Church or in silence waiting for the words to come -- and sometimes they just don't. It is not that I don't want to pray. Its just that the words feel insufficient. The poetry is stilted. Sometimes I open up the Book of Common Prayer and thumb through the pages. It offers prayers so much better; but, they are not my words; and, I feel dishonest just repeating them. So at times, I am mute.
I realize that what matters is not my clever construction of prayerful language. It is the the song that I sing in my soul that animates my prayers. Prayer is essential to our Lenten discipline, so sometimes I just simply pray that God guide me to know what to do with my life and the strength to follow his guidance. I think the key is to just unlock my heart and offer my prayer, and simply let my spirit carry the words to Heaven.
Webb
Rarely does prayer come easy for me. I sit in Church or in silence waiting for the words to come -- and sometimes they just don't. It is not that I don't want to pray. Its just that the words feel insufficient. The poetry is stilted. Sometimes I open up the Book of Common Prayer and thumb through the pages. It offers prayers so much better; but, they are not my words; and, I feel dishonest just repeating them. So at times, I am mute.
I realize that what matters is not my clever construction of prayerful language. It is the the song that I sing in my soul that animates my prayers. Prayer is essential to our Lenten discipline, so sometimes I just simply pray that God guide me to know what to do with my life and the strength to follow his guidance. I think the key is to just unlock my heart and offer my prayer, and simply let my spirit carry the words to Heaven.
Webb
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