By McKenzie Burke
On a recent episode of his podcast This Past Weekend, Theo Von spent time reflecting on God, prayer, and the way he has been trying to work through personal struggles in his life.
He talked about how his relationship to prayer has been shifting lately in how he actually speaks to God.
“And so something that’s just been helping me recently is just praying differently…”
Theo explained that for him, that has meant moving away from more surface-level requests and instead being more direct about what feels unresolved internally, even if he does not always have the right language for it.
He described it like this:
“I’ve just been praying that God comes into those parts of me, you know, don’t just come into like the water inside of me. Come into the well. Come into the walls of the well. Come into the mortar, whatever that’s between the bricks because I’m broken all the way there.”
He expands on the idea of prayer as something that reaches deeper than what is visible on the outside, into the internal places he associates with how he is built as a person, not just how he presents himself.
Throughout the conversation, Theo returns to the idea of wanting honesty in those moments, not trying to present things as more put together than they are, but instead acknowledging what he is actually bringing into prayer.
He also speaks about it as an ongoing shift, something he is actively trying to practice rather than something he feels he has fully figured out.
For Theo, it is about praying differently and being honest about what he brings into prayer.
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