Editorial December 4, 1989 Issue

Is it realistic to pray?

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

When something bad happens, why pray about it? Why not just do the best you can and go forward with as much courage and good humor as you can manage?

A friend was honestly asking. I was trying to learn from his questions.

I could see he felt the world around him was pretty much the way it looked, that he took it the way it came—someone might say "the way life cut the deck and dealt the cards."

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