There is a kind of honesty in Kat's account of her prayer life that is both refreshing and instructive. An Interserve Partner with autism and ADHD, she works with asylum seekers and refugees in the East of England, and she has written with unusual candour about how her neurodivergent brain shapes not just the challenges of that work but the spiritual practices that sustain her in it.

The central image she borrows from a Bible college lecturer is simple and memorable: change your shoes. If your current way of engaging with God no longer fits — if the prayer style you inherited from your tradition feels like squeezing into shoes that were made for someone else — then find a shape and style that fits you. For Kat, that means a morning quiet time that her autistic need for routine makes non-negotiable, combined with a wide 'buffet' of prayer styles that her ADHD-inflected love of variety makes possible.

What makes the piece particularly valuable is the connection Kat draws between her prayer life and her capacity to serve. Her day-to-day work with asylum seekers is, she writes, emotionally taxing — journeying alongside people who carry immense traumas and have stressful ongoing situations. The morning quiet time is not a luxury or a religious obligation; it is the practice that keeps her nervous system regulated and her cup full enough to give from.

This is a piece that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt that the standard models of Christian devotion do not quite fit them — and with anyone who works in emotionally demanding contexts and wonders how to sustain themselves spiritually. Interserve's willingness to publish it is itself a small act of hospitality towards the neurodivergent Christians in the church's midst.