If you were to go along with the impression that life is just as material as it seems, you'd be missing the main thing that makes prayer and healing practical: God is here.
The quest for freedom has made the headlines recently. True freedom is a gift of God; we find it when we glimpse our spiritual selfhood in His likeness.
Careers, residences, responsibilities, world conditions, taxes, and just about everything else change from time to time. But our relationship to God and our love for one another remain constant in calling us nearer to God's love and direction.
Young people who
see family members taking pills to go to sleep and stay awake, to have more energy, to resist colds and assorted aches and pains, may see little distinction between filling legal prescriptions at the corner drugstore and getting illegal drugs on the dark street corner down the block.
