Salty prayer

"A faith that just accepts is a child's faith and all right for children, but eventually you have to grow religiously as every other way, though some never do." Flannery O'Connor

Prayer is like salt.

It enhances everything: butter, cantaloupe, squash. Salt elicits the blossom of bitter while softening its harshness. It draws out the complexity of sweet. Salt unravels the tight spiral structure of proteins, rendering their flavor unctuous. It pearls tart to an explosive roundness. It doesn’t take much: a flick on a square of c…