CREDO #5 · August 30, 2026 · 35 minutes
Why Pray?
Prayer Is Not a Performance
Prayer can begin to feel like another spiritual test: something that must be done correctly, sincerely enough, or with better words. Drawing from Jesus, the Lord’s Prayer, lament, and Augustine’s Letter 130 to Proba, James considers prayer as honest desire turned toward the God who already knows us.
Questions explored
Faith examined from lived experience.
- Why pray if God already knows what we need?
- Does prayer change God, or does it form our desires toward God?
- What can we pray when grief, distraction, or exhaustion leaves us without words?
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