a blessing for when you don’t know how to pray

Teach us how to pray, God,
when our faith doesn’t feel like comfort.
when there are not easy answers or tidy scripts.
when there are no other words but lament.

Teach us how to pray, God,
when we see Christ in Gethsemane
at the center of it all.

Teach us how to pray, God,
when the Spirit groans alongside us,
speechless too, at the pain, at the inexplicable, at the unfair.
Joining the chorus of others in this agonized prayer.

Teach us how to pray, God,
May our words of lament turn toward acts of love,
as we remake this beautiful, terrible world, together.