It’s often hard to imagine how prayer works or how best to pray. How to connect emotionally with what is greater than ourselves.
Recently, I came across a fascinating idea in the most unlikely of places, a best-selling apocalyptic novel by Justin Cronin called The Passage.
One of the characters in the book is a nun who connects with God by closing her eyes and sending “her mind out as far as she could – since childhood, she had imagined it as a kite on a string, lifting higher as she let the line out – and to wait to see what happened… the imaginary ball of string growing smaller in her hand, the kite itself just a speck of color far above her head… the wind of heaven pushing upon it.”
What might happen if we prayed that way? We imagined that our mind was a kite and let it drift up to the heavens? What might we discover if we took that journey?
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