In my personal blog, I write about prayer that comes close to being poetry. Here's a portion:
Forming a prayer that comes close to being a poem is something that my
adult class at St. James Episcopal Church does each week. We follow the
curriculum "Education for Ministry" (EfM) devised by the School of
Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee. Each week we apply our
readings from Scripture, history, and theology to a story or artifact
brought to us by someone in the class. We end by collaborating on a
collect, intended to "collect" all our thoughts into one unified prayer,
often one sentence. We wrestle with the problem of finding the words
that are both true to what has emerged from our discussions, and beautiful.
See the rest of my article here.
