I was inspired to make this list after reading the title of a blog post by my friend, Dr. Mary Kay Henry, on prayer. While she is not a practicing Catholic or a praying person, she does have a way of making prayer seem effortless. She writes that she finds her prayer time to be very spiritual and that she feels a sense of peace and contentment after she has prayed. She also suggests that this is the most effective way to pray.
Dr. Henry encourages us to have a regular habit of prayer. She explains, “If you’re not praying regularly, you’re not as close to the Lord, you’re not making him known to you, and you’re not being attentive to what He’s doing, you’re not being present to His presence.
She continues saying that for those who do pray regularly, this is a good practice because it helps to keep us focused on the moment and to know that we are doing the right thing. It’s easy to get caught up in the big picture and think that God has to show up in every little thing. But this is what He does with us all the time. If we are not actively seeking Him, we miss Him.
Praying regularly is a great way for us to keep our focus on the moment and to know that we are doing the right thing. In our study of people who practice regularly, we discovered that they often pray in the middle of a difficult situation and end up praying for a friend or for their children or for the dead. That’s what we’re doing here today. We’re praying for the healing of a friend and for the healing of the world.
The concept of praying for someone or something is actually rather common. Especially with cancer, we hear prayers for a cure from those with cancer. While it’s true that prayer is a way of connecting oneself in a positive and healing way, it’s also part of the process of helping others who are in need. So we should pray for people and things in our daily lives, because we are all connected to each other and to the world.
I think the concept of prayer in a healthy way is fairly unique to the Orthodox church, where it is not only part of the liturgical practices but also part of the way we live our daily lives. I personally know of many people who do not pray as often as they should (not on a regular basis), but I know of those people as well. Many of them are not Orthodox, and I think that it’s because prayer is a sign of our connection to the divine.
The idea of prayer is that you say a prayer for something, something that you have to do, and you imagine it will happen. That’s why for example, the Orthodox tradition of fasting is very important to our faith because we are always reminded that our lives are about change. Praying for our bodies to stay fresh is a part of that change. That’s why the Orthodox community uses their fasting rituals to remind us that we are actually the ones who change.
I think it’s a sign that we are indeed changing. We’re changing from being a society of sinners to a society of saints.
I agree, but its not just because I am a former Orthodox Jew. I am a former Baptist minister who has also learned that fasting is a powerful tool for the transformation of a person. For me it has been a very important part of my life, I know not because I have taken part in a fast, but because I have learned how to use it to my advantage. It has been one of the most powerful things I have ever done.
You can use any type of prayer to cleanse yourself, but I like the one we use called the self-cleansing prayer. This is a prayer that you say to yourself before you start running, before you leave the house and drive to a party, before you start drinking, before you go to bed, and before you do anything else that requires concentration, like doing dishes.