March 25, 2022

Wordle is quite the rage now – a word guessing game in which you try to guess the hidden 5 letter word in 6 tries. Correct letters are revealed with in green, and letters in the word that are right but in the wrong place are brown. There is a tiny thrill when choosing your first word. The possibilities are endless! I usually choose the first 5 letter word that pops into my head.

Prayer is like Wordle, except you always get it right on the first guess.  Here is what the Apostle Paul says about prayer. “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.  And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.” (Romans 8:26-27)

God turns our wrong words into right words!

“Almighty God, to whom our needs are known before we ask: Help us to ask only what accords with your will; and those good things which we dare not, or in our blindness cannot ask, grant us for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Collect at the Prayers – BCP p. 394)