Friday, January 3, 2020

How to pray


After Matthew 6:9

Then, we are instructed
to pray, the then a coda,
a summary of what was
spoken before: don’t heap
up empty phrases, don’t believe
that more words mean
a greater likelihood of being
heard; instead, pray in wisdom,
knowing the needs, requests,
supplications, desires are
already known. No surprises
here; he already knows.

Photograph by Naassom Azevedo via Unsplash. Used with permission.

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