![]() ![]() This was, for me, a flier into a prayer that worked. I was speaking in my own words, speaking with honesty. I found myself feeling assured God had heard my prayer. I was speaking as an intimate-even as a lover might speak. ![]() Please help me.” I experienced relief at being so plainspoken. ![]() The advice to be more colloquial found me praying more intimately, and not on my knees. I was raised Catholic, and had spoken of using a formal prayer and saying it on my knees. “Speak to God in your own words,” a sage advised me four decades ago, as I was struggling in early sobriety. We will explore the possibility that we can convene with a god of our understanding-and then we will experiment with talking to this Higher Power, however we choose to define it. In the six weeks that follow, we will begin by examining the “God concept” we were raised with. In writing this book, which spanned a cold and snowy New Mexico winter, I wrote, and I prayed-and I talked to my friends and colleagues about prayer.Īt the core of our relationship to God is our understanding of God. ![]() There are as many definitions of God-and prayer-as there are people to define it. “God” and “prayer” can be loaded words, often associated with an organized religion that we may or may not have broken from. That’s simple enough, and yet for many people, prayer is a difficult subject. “Prayer is talking to God,” so the adage goes. ![]()
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