in instrumental music and I know people who deliberately and wordlessly dance their prayers. Maybe this is why some of the most common prayer-words, like ‘Alleluia’ and ‘Amen’, are happily used by people who have little or no sense of their literal meaning. Prayer is not something we do. It is what God does in and through us. It is the Spirit in our hearts. It is the Spirit’s inarticulate groans and sighs, which are often too deep for words yet somehow, sometimes, verbal. We pray in the same way