How to Pray When You’re Worried
In this excerpt from The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything: Prayer, you’ll discover tips to transform your worry to peace-producing prayer.
In this excerpt from The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything: Prayer, you’ll discover tips to transform your worry to peace-producing prayer.
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Prayer changes things while worrying produces no positive results. So, rather than worrying about the needs in your loved ones’ lives or fretting about a situation you can’t do anything about, write a prayer note and stuff it into your prayer box.