I Believe Prayer Changes Things. Here’s a Few Thoughts Why.

I posted this on Facebook not long ago…

A couple of people posted comments to the effect of “Please say more about how prayer changes things.”

That’s a great question and so here are a few thoughts in response.

First, I don’t believe prayer is magic. I once heard Episcopal priest and writer John Westerhoff define magic like this: “Magic is anything you do to get God to do something that God would not otherwise do.” Now, I have Pagan and Wiccan friends who bristle at this definition, but that’s ...