Circular Experience of Love

 I'm reading the book All the Good: A Wesleyan Way of Christmas.  It is written by four authors.  Chapter 2, which I finished today, was about prayer, and was written by Sangwoo Kim.  Dr. Kim is a professor at Duke Divinity School.  I found the following paragraph to be very profound; it presented a concept of prayer I hadn't seen before:

Those who pray are incorporated into Christ, who is in unity with God the Father. We never come to God as an absolute other; instead, we find ourselves in the mysterious work of the Trinity, who is both the speaker and listener of prayer. In our voices, God the Father hears the voice of the interceding Christ.  Our prayer is not our own accomplishment but rather God's gift of grace coming through the Holy Spirit, who frees, enables, and incites us to pray. When we cannot find words for prayer, the Holy Spirit also "intercedes with sighs too deep for Human Language (Romans 8:26). So in our prayer, we not only speak but also almost overhear what the three persons of the Trinity exchange in words and sighs, and we join the circular movement of love that comes from God and returns to God. So, in our prayer, we can find the utmost hope and trust in the triune God.

I don't want to add too much to that paragraph, but want to point out to you the image of "joining the circular movement of love that comes from God and returns to God."  Have you ever experienced something like that? Doesn't it sound - well, I don't really have words for it.

I have experienced more than one time when I don't have words for prayer but have an immense need for it, and I have experienced the Holy Spirit intervening - when our younger son was born and wasn't breathing, and when the pandemic started. I can imagine that as a circular movement of love from and to God now that I read what Dr. Kim wrote.