October 21, 2026
The Old Words Are Not Tame
An ancient prayer from John 17:1-8 for ancient, prayer.
Some prayers do not decorate the soul. They undress it. That is part of their kindness.
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 Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, attributed in the corpus to the Christian prayer tradition. No outside sources used.