12 korte gebeden over lust — en wanneer je echte hulp moet zoeken

Twelve short prayers about lust — for the moment, for afterwards, and for the long work of not being ruled by it. A word first about what these are and are not. Before the prayers Prayer is not a technique for suppressing a drive, and treating it that way produces shame rather than change. Two things are worth separating. There is the ordinary struggle, which is most people and is not a scandal. And there is a compulsive pattern —…