Thought for the Week: Becoming the prayer

Jill Allum reflects on 'becoming the prayer'

by Jill Allum 21st November 2014

All my life I have felt that prayer is saying words to God. I have hunted for the words and felt a failure when I could not find them.

Recently, I wrote a letter to the Friend about a book, The Way of a Pilgrim, and described how it had changed my life, especially my prayer-life. The positive, and thoughtful, response to that letter has made me think that, perhaps, some Friends are hungry for prayer. This is a great release. There is no hunting and striving, just a resting and relaxing, perhaps a letting oneself be prayed through. In the 2014 Swarthmore Lecture book, Ben Pink Dandelion talks about ‘living a life of unceasing prayer’.