October 23, 2026
Prayer Without Cosmetics
A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.
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 Christ, The Divine Teacher Of Prayer (_Continued_), attributed in the corpus to E. M. Bounds. No outside sources used.