Have you ever prayed in your sleep? Ever prayed in a dream? Does prayer even depend on our awareness, our wakefulness?
God heard Israel’s cry during her slavery in Egypt (Ex 1-3.) Did Israel pray nicely, with solemn tone and careful wording? Or did the people of God pray with groans too deep for words? Were those the prayers of dreams, of people numbed into sleepwalking through pain?
I took this photograph as my wife, Calder, slept. The prayerful aspect of those beautiful hands spoke to me of our whole life becoming a prayer, a cry of God’s Spirit within, hid within our somnolence and too deep, indeed, for words.
May it be so.