The Most Natural Prayer (Flannery O'Connor)

The experience of losing your faith, or of having lost it,
is an experience that in the long run belongs to faith; or at
least it can belong to faith if faith is still valuable to you,
and it must be or you would not have written me about this.
I don’t know how the kind of faith required of a Christian
living in the 20th century can be at all if it is not grounded
on this experience that you are having right now of unbelief.
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” is the most natural and
most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and
I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.



Peace Forever,
Firacub.