When you pray to
God you are opening up to Him. If you
pray and ask him to forgive you of your sins it can “strip the soul” of the
bad.
Benson and
Wirzba wrote in the introduction of “The Phenomenology of Prayer” that “prayer
effectively strips the soul of its pretense and makes it available before an
inscrutable God…prayer leads to a breakdown of language as the believer enters
a ‘dark night’ or ‘blinding light’ like those described by the great mystics
(pg. 2).”
The
soul of pretense means you must be genuine, and “available before an inscrutable
God,” an example of a time could be after Adam and Eve did what they did the in
garden and then they were being pretentious by covering themselves.
It
goes on to say “prayer can also be described as the ‘intensification of
experience,’ that is the flow experience.
Prayer is a connection between you and God. It may be the way a believer connects to
God. Some people may connect to God
through song, but prayer is a form of talking to God.
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