The phenomenology of Prayer 1

After reading the book The Phenomenology of Prayer, I noticed that a lot of the stories were about people who started out not really praying and then went through a transformation where they found their new love for praying. I liked that a lot of the stories were about what is actually essential within humanity. How and why we pray says a lot about who we are as people. One of the stories was about a little boy who prayed for gelato while others prayed for themselves or for family members to recover from illness. In my opinion, I think that it’s cool that everyone prays differently. It shows that each person and their life stories are different. I could be having the worst day of my life while you could be having the best but we are still in church praying at the same time. I think that the differences in prayer are really fascinating. As someone who doesn’t go to church or who hasn’t prayed in a long time, I thought that it was really interesting to read about different stories of people praying and coming more intuned with their religion. One more thing that I noticed that the author did is that he described what prayer actually was. Before reading the book, I don’t think that I actually had a good idea of what prayer actually was so I’m very glad that the author did this.