Do I Still Pray?

Reason #4 from I Don't Know How to Pray Anymore and You Can Too

It’s true that I’m not really trying to fix things when I pray, but also, in a larger sense, I pray because by faith I think I might be influencing things to align with uncontrolling love, and in doing so, I’m imagining a better world in the future. Sometimes, in prayer, I sense something like hope or patience or idk what to call it, and when I do it helps me actually be the kind of person I want to be. And look, if that’s true, then prayer is encouraging me to live differently. And if I live differently, it influences those around me. And maybe they influence others. It doesn’t take long for one to see that, well, of course, it’s layered, indirect, and much more complex, but in this way, the whole world (community, govt, ecology) might be influenced.

Conversely, if I can pray with an imagination that’s been filtered through the idea that the whole world (community, govt, ecology) might be different, then in some sense, I’m bringing the kin-dom of love into the present, which might be the very thing Jesus was getting at when he taught us to pray “your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

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