A Prayer for Spiritual Exiles

What do people in Spiritual Exile do with a familiar liturgy like the Lord’s Prayer when the language we've learned doesn't work anymore?

What do we say when we don’t know what to say?

But if God really does love and care for God’s people, then what could honor God more than sharing our deepest hurts?

What the Teacher was saying seemed to sound less like religion and more like relationship.

Sometimes, we have to look through the weirdest circumstances to encounter God. This is a story of one of those times.

These words and thoughts
and thoughts and words
have meaning
have power
have danger
have hope.