Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Prayer begins in wonder — in the human desire to reach beyond ourselves.  This opening reflection explores prayer as communion with the Divine  rather than a transaction of needs and outcomes. Prayer, in its purest  form, is love returning to its source.

If God already knows all things, why pray for others? This post  investigates that paradox — drawing on scripture and mystics who teach  that to intercede is to bear another into God’s presence. Intercession becomes both the boldness of asking and the humility of surrender.

What does it mean to pray when the answer does not come? This post faces  the oldest theological tension: how to reconcile divine love with human  suffering. We explore how suffering can become not the end of  prayer but its deepest entry point.

The modern world often calls faith absurd — a cry into silence. This  study contrasts the existentialists’ experience of a mute universe with  the mystic’s encounter of silence as presence. We ask, What if the silence we fear is the  very voice we seek?

This reflection examines  the Lord’s Prayer not as a formula to recite but  as a framework for intimacy. Drawing on the Psalms and the prayers of  David, it reminds us that there is no single “right” way to pray — only  the courage to be honest before God.

What lies beyond language? In this contemplative installment, we enter  the world of Thomas Merton and Thomas Keating, who describe prayer as  resting in God’s stillness. This is the “dark night of the soul” — the  silent space where faith matures from asking to abiding.

When prayer takes root in the soul, it overflows into life. Yet service  without love becomes machinery.  This post argues that true Christian action arises not from duty or  ideology but from love’s natural abundance. To love God is to love what  He loves.

Prayer becomes a mode of being.  Washing dishes, walking the dog, or driving to work all become forms of  communion. When the heart abides in God, the ordinary turns sacramental —  every breath becomes prayer.