The foundational presupposition of all prayer is that God reveals himself personally by means of language...... God creates the cosmos with words; he creates us with words; he calls to us, speaks to us, whispers to us using words. Then he gives us, his human creatures, the gift of language; we not only can hear and understand God as he speaks to us, we can speak to him --- respond, answer, converse, argue, question. We can pray. God is the initiator and guarantor of language both ways, as God speaks to us, we speak to God.
-Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book, page 103-104
God speaks to us. We speak to God. How does God speak? Through Scripture, through other people, through traditions and liturgy, through our reason and experience. This this is the language that we speak.
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