Prayer is not ritualized language composed ceremonially for an audience with heavenly royalty. Our relation with God is as unpredictable, unplannable, and unrehearsed as life with our neighbors.
from Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
I also think I take a bit of issue with this quotation, though only because it sounds so absolute. I think there is a place for ritualized prayer, possibly in some of the most "unpredictable, unplannable, and unrehearsed" times of our lives, when we don't know what to pray and ritual gives us a place to start.
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