Ben Greenfield reflects on the unique, quasi-mysterious ability of the Bible to engage dyslexic readers and describes prayer as an intimate, relational practice that can be disrupted by unresolved conflict between partners. He offers anecdotal observations about reading, spirituality, and the interpersonal dynamics of prayer.
Bible almost is a little bit magical. Like not to get too esoteric or woo, but I have one friend and then my wife who are both dyslexic, who hate to read and the one book they can pick up and like read perfectly is the Bible, which is really weird. And no, no scientist is going to believe that. And anybody who specializes in whatever, dyslexia or learning would, would understand how that is. And I don't understand how that is, but they could. Like it's the one book that they can actually read and understand and not get super bored and frustrated with. They're reading it. It's really hard to do something spiritual and sacred. You know, I would name like sex and prayer as being two of those when there's something between you and your significant other. So prayer especially is just like this built in mechanism to where like I can tell if my wife and I are laying in bed and our heads are on the pillow and I'm attempting to pray and there's like this blockage just because we both know there like there's an unresolved argument that we just have.
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