Too Deep for Words

I'm finding blogging to be an interesting thing. It can be cathartic, but it can be a little stressful. It's nice to write out thoughts, but sometimes hard to come up with anything to say.

I know there are times that photography is like that too. Sometimes, nothing hits you. I know for me there's been many times where my head just isn't in the game.

For me, my mind is often filled with things that are less than helpful for both of these. Being a person that tends to anxiety, it's easy for my head to get 'clogged', among other things. In those moments, it is certainly a challenge to even think on something to write; it's hard to focus on the scene, to photograph it in a meaningful way.

Prayer can be the same way, more often than I care to admit. Especially when my mind is filled and confused, cluttered with doubt or anxiety, the weaknesses I possess, concerns, struggles, you name it.

In those moments it is a major comfort that this verse is in the Bible:

"In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God." - Romans 8:26-27

To know that the Spirit intercedes for believers according to the will of God, even when I am unable to even pray as I ought, it is an immeasurable help.