Pray

Prayer serves as the circulatory system of our spirits – individually and corporately. Despite is ubiquitous nature, we cry out: teach us to pray. This practice eludes us in plain sight. Yet it beckons and rewards us for our honest, simple heartfelt sighs and groans too deep for words. I’ve begun to brainstorm a list of potential topics for discipleship training and exploration in the area of Prayer. I hope to include an annotated bibliography of books, websites, and other resources as well. What’s missing from this list?

  1. Forms of prayer

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  2. Silence and contemplation (and how to deal with all of the noise inside and outside)
  3. Mantra (words, phrases, and actions – like driving; see Breath Prayers)
  4. Flow
  5. Listening
  6. ACTS – Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication as a template for prayer
  7. Psalm Prayers (please see the Psalm Prayer Resources on my Devotions page). Psalms for All Seasons is one of the best complete musical Psalters I know. And there are several wonderful Psalm translations for prayer:
    1. Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness by Nan Merrill
    2. The Revised Grail Psalms: A Liturgical Psalter

    3. The Psalter: A Faithful and Inclusive Rendering from the Hebrew into Contemporary English Poetry, Intended Primarily for Communal Song and Recitation (ICEL translation)

  8. Psalm/prayer genres – practice and composition (Writing the Sacred: A psalm-Inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry by Ray McGinnis)
  9. The Marian Psalter – see Our Lady’s Psalter, The Scriptural Rosary, or my comments here.
  10. Prayer beads
  11. Praying the Rosary
  12. Group prayers (worship)
  13. Prayer Postures
  14. Journaling and prayer
  15. Prayer retreat
  16. Silent retreat
  17. Body prayer – cycling, running, hiking (Psalm postures)
  18. Prayer dancing
  19. Prayer walk
  20. Mind-Body unity and prayer
  21. Labyrinth prayer – alone and with others (Walking a Sacred Path by Dr. Lauren Artress)
  22. Yoga
  23. Sung prayer
  24. Music and prayer – listening, meditating, singing
  25. Scripture prayers
  26. The Lord’s Prayer
  27. Table Grace
  28. Prayers of the Hours for Summertime (Vol. I); for Autumn & Wintertime (Vol. II); and for Springtime (Vol. III) (Phyllis Tickle); also St. Benedict on the Freeway (Corinne Ware)
  29. Devotional prayers and aids (Rueben Job’s Guides to Prayer – there are four editions: For Ministers & Other Servants (blue); For All Who Seek God (green); For All God’s People (red); and For All Who Walk with God (black, available on Kindle)
  31. Prayer in nature
  32. Thanksgiving and Need – Philippians 4:4-7
  33. Prayer and anointing (healing) – James 5:13-16
  34. Laying on of hands
  35. Joining hands
  36. Prayer over others
  37. Prayer and forgiveness
  38. Prayer and communion (worship)
  39. Prayer and neurobiology
  40. Prayer without ceasing (1 Thes. 5:16-19)
  41. Prayer and fasting (Esther 4:16; Matthew 17:21; Luke 2:37; Acts 13:2-3; 14:23)
  42. Morning and evening prayer – canticles (worship)
  43. Arrow prayers
  44. Breath prayer
  45. Praying in Color by Sybil MacBeth
  46. Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
  47. Kataphatic (via positiva) and Apophatic (via negativa) Prayer
  49. Lectio Divina Prayer (Scripture)
  50. Korean Tungsung Kido (praying out loud together)