prayer from the cell: how to talk

Paul in Romans 8 divulges our secret: “… the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us…“. We really don’t know what we are doing when it comes to prayer. So those who march back and forth with loud triumphant shouts promising guaranteed results are just fooling themselves and trying to fool you. When you are extracted from a religious community for a while (your decision or theirs) and this game is no longer sustained by the crowd dynamic, the gimmick becomes even more obvious.

Let’s admit we really don’t know what we are doing when it comes to prayer. Let all mortal flesh keep silence.

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