In praise of prayer

Prayer Journal
Written By EM

Tonight I feel on fire—dilated—inhabited by Spirit.

So much is pouring out of me, feeling so full—jumpy—bursting out of my skin with the excitement of feeling like this again. Again, after so much waiting and yearning. Again, after so much winter, after so much despair turned to helplessness turned to nothingness turned to aching tantrum.

Something inside me broke open. So compacted and so compressed, bursting and breaking was the only option. I succumbed. I surrendered. I took my body to its knees. I humbled myself in earnest prayer. I splayed myself and asked for even more openness.

Ask and ye shall receive. Tonight, here I am, speaking to Spirit aloud, feeling and hearing Spirit within. I’m flowing. I’m ignited. I’m grateful.

I’m grateful and I pray that you too can find the openness after the breaking. I pray that, if you find yourself lowered to the knees, that they are just as held by the earth and the sky.

EM

EM (she/her) is a highly attuned empath, intuitive claircognizant, and tarot interpreter. Trained in cultural criticism, she holds an M.A. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. Her academic work involved feminism in film, sexual textuality, queer temporality, and medieval mysticism. Presently based on Tongva land (Long Beach, CA), her emergent project, Cloister Mysticism, arose in response to the psychic violence of capitalism and from the desire to enlarge & reclaim access to healing and self-empowerment. 

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