Why pray? A time to take inventory. To take a look from high and wide at our self, our loved ones, our mortality. A time to smile upon our blessings, to humble our selfish yearnings, to embrace those we know are in need with our compassion, and see them in our mind’s eye as their most true selves, a snapshot, down memory lane, of those we know and care for, when they were most themselves. Not happiest or proudest, not saddest or most reflective, but that image of them when we see, without advertisement or desire, their light shine within, and finally see ourselves the same, before we say amen.
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