October 22, 2026
The Mercy of Older Words
An ancient prayer adapted from Philippians 4 for love, communion, worship.
There is a kind of spiritual speech that sounds antique only because we have become so modern in our evasions. The older authors still know how to ask plainly.
Christian memory is not a scrapbook. It is a school. This is one of the lessons.
Source boundary: this post reflects on For Spiritual Desires, attributed in the corpus to the Christian prayer tradition. No outside sources used.