Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams gives language to what was happening in me. “Christians pray because they have to, because the Spirit is surging up inside them.”3 Further, he writes that the life of being baptized as beloved “is characterized by a prayerfulness that courageously keeps going, even when things are difficult and unpromising and unrewarding, simply because you cannot stop the urge to pray. Something keeps coming alive in you; never mind the results.”4
