"Properly understood and applied, [prayer] is the most potent instrument of action."

--Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a critical piece when things appear to be falling apart, when they are shifting, changing, uncertain and unstable.  On our knees, we are stabilized.  It is prayer that is the workhorse keeping us grounded in what is true, loving, right and good.  In this episode, Lee Ann talks about prayer as a way to assist us in tough times.    

Hooray Weekly's Podcast Notes from Today's Episode:

Here are two prayers that can be pulled out of your pocket whenever you need them.  I love these common, yet profound prayers.

Lord’s Prayer (also called the Our Father or Jesus Prayer):

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, they will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever.  Amen.

The Prayer of Saint Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

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