Prayer: Ephrem the Syrian: Prayer as Poetry
Teaching on Prayer from Ephrem the Syrian: Ephrem the Syrian: Prayer as Poetry
This is a spiritual discipline on poetry and creative prayer, drawing on Psalm 19:1-4, Psalm 104:1-5 and Psalm 148.
Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), known as the "Harp of the Holy Spirit," composed thousands of hymns and poems as prayers to God. He believed that poetic language could reach depths that prose could not. He wrote: "Lord, refine my feelings and my thoughts so that I may have the sensitivity to perceive You and the capacity to sense Your nearness."…
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