Deird writing at The Slacktiverse confesses there is something about praying with the whole body:
The faith I grew up with was very clear about the trappings of Anglicanism: they were wrong.
Pomp and circumstance, you see, was wrong.
Grandly wearing robes to proclaim how holy you were was wrong.
Incense was imposing irrelevant ritual on approaching God, and was wrong.
In fact, all irrelevant ritual was wrong. (And all ritual was irrelevant.)
And clearly, set prayers from a prayer book were stale, meaningless, inhibiting communication with God… and wrong, too.
Kneeling down to pray? Also wrong.
In fact, traditional styles of prayer were best avoided altogether. Real prayer should be spontaneous, from the heart, and preferably wordless. This demonstrated how close to God you were. *
I was very sure of myself.
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Feelings can’t survive wholly independent of actions. They fade and die. And, when your faith is entirely about feelings, faith dies along with them.
Thankfully, when I was fifteen I encountered two very sensible people: a pastor at my church, and a high school drama teacher. They both told me the same thing, in different ways.
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“God created us to be physical. He wants us to be that way.”
This was when I started realising that maybe Anglicans weren’t boring people who preferred meaningless rituals to encountering God.
Read it all here.