C.S. Lewis wrote of a practice that he thought was his original idea: taking a familiar prayer, such as the Lord's Prayer, and embellishing it with one's own intensions until this elaboration becomes an act of prayer itself. He even gave it a name: "festooning." If you were to festoon the line "forgive us our sins," you might ramble on to say, "like on Monday when I became angry at that bus driver, and I didn't keep my word to my daughter." As you festoon, let these ideas about God shape the attitude you carry into the prayer.
— Patricia D. Brown in Paths to Prayer