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Prayer, like any discipline, is a learned experience from parental guidance in one’s early years to spiritual direction and mentoring later. Some pray professionally, like cloistered religious whose primary responsibility it is to appeal to God for the world and to consecrate each moment with holiness; these religious men and women do perhaps the most important work on earth. Nonetheless every person requires moments of serenity in which to lift the mind and heart to a higher power-in praise, thanksgiving, or petition when confronted with life’s complications. The simple acknowledgment of God at a meeting, a computer terminal, or a kitchen sink is a prayer. Note that the elemental definition of prayer-the lifting of the mind and heart to God-says nothing about what to say or where to say it. Prayer may be whispered in a car as well as a cathedral, a mall as well as a meadow. What it does say is that prayer involves one’s intellect and emotions-one’s total being.
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