Prayer Too Deep for Words

Today’s Reflection

We need God’s help. We cannot reach God by our effort. In the silence of contemplation we yearn for God’s loving presence and action.

—J. David Muyskens, Forty Days to a Closer Walk with God: The Practice of Centering Prayer(Upper Room Books, 2006)

Today’s Question

Have you ever prayed without words? Perhaps you have simply sighed, cried, or even screamed in God’s presence. How will you pray without words today?

Today’s Scripture

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words.—Romans 8:26 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

Spirit of God, I long for you alone. Fill me with your gifts of love, joy, and peace so that I will be empty of the things of this world and full of your presence. Amen.