FROM THE EDITORS January 18, 1993 Issue

FROM THE EDITORS

The Editors

Suppose someone called or wrote you from an area of the world that was thousands of miles away, and asked you to pray for him. Would you wonder, Is there a limit to the distance over which prayer is effective? And are there physical or political boundaries that prayer cannot cross?

Prayer is not some finite, material power; therefore it is not constrained or impeded by mountains, deserts, or politics—by any physical or ideological barrier. God, divine Spirit, is the reason behind, and the basis for, our prayer. The power of prayer, then, is exclusively spiritual. There is no limit to the influence of Spirit.

Someone once asked, "Why do the stars seem so wholly remote and unconnected to us?" They only seem so if we don't choose to notice their light and to include them in our thinking. What about people in distant parts of the world; should we include them in our thinking—in our prayers?

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