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“God is creating a new humanity and something incredibly beautiful... Reach out and see the possibility of an amazing future.”

Perhaps I should say that I am not, at first glance, a person in any way cut out for prayer. I'm nervous, jumpy, easily distracted, and my mind tends to run in obsessive ruts--usually on subjects that are far removed from prayer. So at first, developing a prayer life sounded way too advanced and esoteric…

What, then, did Jesus mean when He said we could ask “anything in [His] name and He will do it” (John 14:14)? It means the same for us as it did for Him. In His own prayers Jesus always asked for God’s will to be done, even in the most trying circumstances of His life: “Father, if it is Your will, take…

The Perfect Prayer The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them. St. Thomas Aquinas,…

God Changes Us A mother sent her fifth grade boy up to bed. In a few minutes she went to make sure that he was getting in bed. When she stuck her head into his room, she saw that he was kneeling beside his bed in prayer. Pausing to listen to his prayers, she heard her son praying over and over again.…

\\ The essential act of prayer is not the bending of God's will to ours . . . but the bending of our will to His. The proper outline of a Christian's prayer is not "Please do for me what I want," but "Please do in me, with me, and through me what You want." -- William Temple

"Suffering" ? The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from…