August 10, 2026
The Mercy of Older Words
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
A strange mercy of the Christian tradition is that it refuses to flatter us. It gives us words when our own words have become too polished to be honest.
So the invitation is simple: do not merely admire the sentence. Borrow it. Pray it until it starts telling the truth in your own voice.
Source boundary: this post reflects on The Possibilities And Necessity Of Prayer, Its Power And Results Are, attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.