Prayer

John Anderson shares some personal thoughts on the nature of prayer

'It is very natural and human when faced by something like cancer to pray for survival...' | Photo: Photo: Trish Carn.

My wife is the kindest person I know. As a little girl she would worry about and pray for all the people in the world for whom no one else was praying. What an onerous burden for tender shoulders! Yet it is understandable enough: the world is full of pain that we would ease if we could and most likely all thoughtful Christians will have, at one time, struggled with this problem.

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