A Lenten Wednesday Thought
Again, from Bruderhof's Daily Dig, one week into Lent, words from Flannery O'Connor. We are constantly in a stuggle within us over the things we believe and the things we have trouble believing or understanding. This is an essential part of Lent.

The Most Natural Prayer -- Flannery O'Connor

The experience of losing your faith, or of having lost it, is an experience that in the long run belongs to faith; or at least it can belong to faith if faith is still valuable to you, and it must be or you would not have written me about this. I don’t know how the kind of faith required of a Christian living in the 20th century can be at all if it is not grounded on this experience that you are having right now of unbelief. “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

Help my unbelief.

Source: from a letter to Alfred Corn, 1962