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Thanks
Flora Slosson Wuellner has studied and written a great deal on prayer. In her book Prayer, Stress and Our Inner Wounds she suggests giving thanks for our bodies, often neglected and unappreciated: “Occasionally through the day, give a loving thought to your bodily parts which are being used: your eyes, hands, feet, arms, legs, brain. They are your good friends who work with you…Listen to any signals your body sends you of stress or tension. At these times,….relax your breathing, picture…
Toward Sunday
We continue our three-week worship series this week on Prayer based on two books: Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott and Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home by Richard J. Foster. This series comes from the desires expressed in so many of our Deep Commitments last fall. While we may not answer all the questions raised by our Deep Commitments regarding prayer, we do hope to focus on 3 areas: the history of prayer, praying in…