Following the logic of the ‘Prayer of Preparation’, in prayer the idols of the heart are made known, cleansed and incorporated into the praise of God. ‘Amen’ is offered in the celebratory hope that despite the fragility of language, the inevitable risk of idolatry, the propensity for human language to control and ‘master’, the recurring temptation to resolution and neatness, despite all this, human speech about God is made possible by its very speech to God. And in the doxological praise of God,