There's No Right Way to Pray
Roberta Bondi on just showing up
My good friend, Zachary Guiliano (rector at Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church in Champaign, IL) shared a lovely podcast about prayer with me last week. I was so refreshed by it, I wanted to share it with you too. The podcast is On Being with Krista Tippet. She interviews Roberta Bondi about her (very) personal journey in prayer.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been working with a spiritual director named Dale Gish to pray the Ignatian Exercises and practice Ignatian spirituality. I plan on writing more on my experience doing all of that another day. But suffice it to say that so much of what’s in this short podcast resonates deeply with what I’ve been learning about prayer through spiritual direction.
I’ve linked it below, so you should give it a listen. But here are three things that Bondi says that really resonated with my own journey:
There’s no right way to pray.
Prayer is about just showing up.
We all need to unlearn who we think God is.
There’s obviously a lot of nuance to those bald statements, so don’t just take them and run with them.
Hear what Bondi says.
Then let the Spirit of God, Who is the very Love of God, carry you into prayer.