Scripture: Mark 8:22-36; John 4:3-34; Acts 8:26-38

Leading Question: Why is prayer so mysterious?

In a rather tantalizing quotation, C. S. Lewis comments about the mysteries of holy places:

I say the gods deal very unrightly with us. For they will neither (which would be best of all) go away and leave us to live our own short days to ourselves, nor will they show themselves openly and tell us what they would have us do. For that too would be endurable. But to hint and hover, to draw near us in dreams and oracles, or in a waking vision that vanishes ...