Prayer brings one closer to God, and closer to the people for whom one prays.
As a young Christian, long before the internet, let alone internet memes, I saw a slogan that tickled me: “Why pray when you can worry?” It’s a satirical version of what the apostle Paul tells the Christians in Philippi: don’t be anxious but take every circumstance to God in prayer.
He is not, as some have charged, a capricious God who needs to be appeased. Nor is he some cosmic vending machine: request in, desired response out. In an almost infinitely complex world, how do we even know how to pray for others? How do we avoid platitudes? Prayer brings all sorts of benefits, physical, psychological and spiritual. It can calm anxiety and lower blood pressure, provide stillness and reflection, and lift one’s focus beyond oneself.
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