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A Prayer You Can Hold: A Maker’s Reflection on Beads, Scripture and Attention

...e held in grief, gratitude, uncertainty, pilgrimage or ordinary morning prayer. My responsibility is limited but real: to make it honestly, make it well, and allow it to disappear into a life of prayer that is not mine to direct. The recurrence of prayer beads across countries and cultures moves me, not because it proves that every prayer or tradition is the same, but because human beings everywhere pray as embodied people. Within Christian life, that instinct receives its particular shape from Christ and Scripture. Fingers pass from bead to bead while the heart is asked, gently and repeatedly, to return to God. A prayer you can hold does not mean that God can...