August 23, 2026
Prayer Without Cosmetics
An ancient prayer from An Ancient Collect for protection, love, grace.
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.
The old words are not museum pieces. They are tools with worn handles. Pick them up.
Source boundary: this post reflects on For Grace and Protection, attributed in the corpus to the Christian prayer tradition. No outside sources used.