Prayer is the language used in relation to God. It is the most universal of all languages, the lingua franca of the human heart. Prayer ranges from "sighs too deep for words" (Romans 8:26) to petitions and thanksgivings composed in lyric poetry and stately prose to "psalms and humans and spiritual songs" (Col 3:16) to the silence of a person present to God in attentive adoration (Psalm 62:1). -- Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book, page 103
Learning how to pray is like learning a language....but it is the language of our hearts. It is a matter of knowing ourselves and knowing God and the communication between. I love learning another language, but then I find it's actually the language of my heart.
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