I like to pray in Spanish. My thoughts are less likely to wander when I'm focusing on the language, and it usually turns out to be more of a poetic experience than when I'm repeating my common English phrases. It makes prayer more beautiful to me.
But more than that, I was thinking tonight about the language of God. I don't think it's English. That's my native language, but it couldn't be God's. After all, it's a relatively young language when compared to others spoken (and extinct), and God must have something much more divine than a man-made lexicon. I like to pray in Spanish, maybe, because it is not my own native English, and in some ways that takes me closer to God's language, and God..
I do this! It's the most concentrated I ever am. Random words come to me that I can't even recall learning. You're excellent, Mad-Eye.
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