Prayer isn’t only talking. Sometimes it’s just sitting there and letting God have the next word.

Talking is only half of any conversation, and prayer gets practised as if it were all of it. You arrive with a list, get through the list, and leave before anything could have come back. Sitting there afterwards with nothing to add feels like wasted time, which is why almost nobody does it. The quiet is not empty; it is the part where you are not the one speaking.

Stay for two minutes after you finish asking this week. Set a timer if your mind wanders. Notice what surfaces when you stop filling the air.