I pray because I’m not enough on my own

I’ve noticed I pray as I write.

Not research papers, or essays.

But my feature stories and journalism pieces have lots of prayer in them.

“Dear God, help me to tell this story well.”

When the story is important, when I have experiences and passions and truth to convey, words seem so very delicate. And sometimes not enough. And I always feel the responsibility of doing justice to the story.

It’s humbling. Which is not a bad place to be.