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Eye on the world: The power of prayer
In “Prayer and politics in Congress” The Christian Science Monitor reports that “in a world where religion can divide people and nations, faith is helping to bridge the political chasm in Congress.” The Senate and the House each hold a weekly nondenominational prayer breakfast for their members. This bipartisan event, where politics, staff, and the press are left outside the doors, “is one of the few venues on the Hill where members of both parties mix socially.” As the lawmakers break bread together, this inspirational time together “builds trust and friendship,” and “can even lead to bipartisan legislation.” The Monitor writes, “While no one thinks the breakfasts will fundamentally change the tenor of one of the most divisive periods in Washington history, they are acting as a moderating influence—and helping to promote a sense of civility and understanding on the Hill.” The prayer breakfasts, and other faith-based gatherings on Capitol Hill, are bridging the divide in Congress and the American public.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 4
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 340
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Expanding the borders of prayer”: “Praying consistently for right government of our nation and the world opens our thought to include all mankind in a more expansive view of God’s salvation.” And “Prayer leads us to the appropriate steps for supporting the human expression of government that most closely patterns God’s.”
In “The power of prayer”: “Christian Science teaches that Truth cannot know error; that Love can have no awareness of hate; that Life is conscious only of its own perfect existence. Truth, Life, and Love declare their own pure nature. The spiritual understanding of the allness and oneness of God, of Life, Truth, and Love, and the consequent nothingness of sin, disease, and death empowers prayer.” And “Scientific prayer shows us what God is and what He does. It shows us what the real man is and how to demonstrate the divine nature. Prayer awakens us to the omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction of God.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.