The Prayer Thread is a collection of teachings and practical prompts to help as we learn to pray in community. This text was originally delivered on December 1, 2021 as a short teaching at our online weekly prayer sit.
Like most things, prayer has an active and a passive expression. In the active expression, prayer disrupts life.
When we interrupt our usual daily rhythms because we get caught up in a moment of prayer, prayer disrupts life. When we rearrange our daily schedule in order to accommodate a regular prayer practice, prayer disrupts life. When we join a cause or care for a person because the still, small voice within begins to speak more loudly, prayer disrupts life.
The active expression of prayer disrupts life—it shakes us up, shimmies us down, whittles and works its ways until new life emerges, transformed.
