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Even When We Are Powerless, We Aren’t Without Power

By John Terrill / 04.07.2022

How the work we do and the words we pray matter.

We plant, pluck, build. We gather, embrace, seek, tear, sew, and speak. On other occasions, we reach the limits of our influence. We weep, mourn, lose, keep silent. And eventually, we die. At times, power and influence — bestowed upon us by God — reside squarely with us. And at times, they are out of our reach. But circumstances of powerlessness can lead us to pray for wisdom and strength t

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“Pascal says that God ‘instituted prayer in order to allow his creatures the dignity of causality.’ It would perhaps be truer to say that he invented both prayer and physical action for that purpose.”

C.S. Lewis

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