This prayer is too heavy for words to carry;

it is too weak to climb the Himalayas

or cross the great African desert,

and it does not know how to swim oceans,

because it is still a child putting itself together.

It is not yet aware it has touched God

nor has it felt His presence surround its growing.

This prayer is already full of feeling.

It believes and trusts, it has hope.

This prayer is not for the person praying:

its heaviness is love.

God understands the silent, the weak, the unformed.

He will hear this mute prayer

and then all that seemed heavy will be light.

Romans 8:26-27

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness;

for we do not know how to pray as we ought,

but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with

sighs too deep for words.  And he who searches

the hearts of men knows what is the mind of

the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for

the saints according to the will of God.