I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I’ll confess to you there are aspects of prayer that I still haven’t quite figured out. But I’m in good company because C.S. Lewis admitted the same thing.

My mother often referred to a prayer that her mother said (in Swedish) nightly at the bedsides of her eight children as they headed off to sleep. The prayer became so embedded in their memories that ...

The path of prayer is marked by hurdles and struggles that need to be overcome and faithfully endured. Prayer is the long spiritual walk that leads us out of ourselves and its fallenness and into the ...

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Nothing good in life is easy. Good things come with great effort. This is true of many things, including prayer. If we want to develop a life of prayer, then we need to be willing to put the work into ...