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Learning how to pray? Relearning how to pray?<\/p>\n

Sometimes we just don’t know how, or where to start, especially if we feel ourselves to be in a “spiritual dry spell.” You might try Praying Through The Psalms<\/a>.\u00a0 They are sometimes brutally honest cries of the heart, from one of God’s favorite very-imperfect people.<\/p>\n

Or you might try this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The evangelical tradition of “improvisatory prayer” has much to recommend it.\u00a0 But it’s also a box that can capture the spirit by limiting it to one’s own ability to think in words, spontaneously.\u00a0 God hears our prayers, verbal and non-verbal…\u00a0 and I think that praying beautifully written and inspired prayers from others has the ability, oddly, to liberate our own non-verbal prayers, as we give our assent and emotional force to the words of someone else.\u00a0 Sometimes, when the mind has something worthwhile to chew on, the heart is freed.<\/p>\n

Jesus seems to have thought this was a pretty good idea<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

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