Editorial August 28, 2000 Issue

Prayer and the real world

Margaret Rogers

"Why do you pray?" was the question my teenage class discussed in Sunday School recently. One boy had provoked the question by asking what you do when you're not getting the results you hope for when you pray. "Just keep praying," another student said with a conviction that some of us knew came from having done that through some challenges of her own. As we continued to encourage him, the conversation turned again to why we pray.

Sometimes prayer involves a battle until we break through to peace and healing.

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