A Prayerful Life https://prayerfullife.com/ The infinite blessings of prayer Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:47:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 68062988 Working Affirmation? Why? What? How? (Part 1) https://prayerfullife.com/working-affirmations-why-what-how-part-1/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:47:06 +0000 https://prayerfullife.com/?p=4525 A working affirmation? These questions came across my Facebook feed: why isn’t my affirmation working?  what can I do to make it work? I laughed and then threw away all the judgment thoughts I was having. Most of them anyway. As a devout applier of affirmations for 30+ years, I really liked the opportunity to […]

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]]> 4525 The world: what do we pray for? https://prayerfullife.com/the-world-what-do-we-pray-for/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:13:37 +0000 https://prayerfullife.com/?p=4511 Top of the world As the world turns The world on a string Around the world In his 1873 novel, Jules Verne took us Around the World in 80 Days. Less than 100 years later Mercury satellite (and television) took us around the earth in 88 minutes. Today the internet takes us not only around […]

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]]> 4511 About stress https://prayerfullife.com/finding-out-about-releasing-stress/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:46:05 +0000 https://prayerfullife.com/?p=4501 About stress, psychologist William James said this: The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. I sort of stopped by to read a post by J.D. Meier (Sources of Insight). It was an OK piece about dealing with stress. Didn’t make me feel any stress. Since I didn’t feel […]

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]]> 4501 Let it go! How do I do that? How does he? https://prayerfullife.com/after-the-politics-can-we-let-it-go/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:23:10 +0000 https://prayerfullife.com/?p=4491 “Let it go” were words I started saying to myself right after the election November 3. I said “let it go” again the days after January 6. And now that the second impeachment trial is over and done, I am once more encouraging myself to let it go. It is not easy. Facebook has become […]

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