Try praying every single day for a handful of people you love. Start with the four words, and then make it your own—your own words, your own rhythm, your own embodied and personal way of entrusting your family and friends to God through prayer, the way Jesus entrusted his disciples to his Father through prayer. And now here’s a challenge: include someone with whom you have a complicated or broken relationship. I’m not an expert in prayer or friendship or anything, but I do know that just a couple weeks of this way of praying has loosened something inside me that has been clenched like a fist
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