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Watch and Pray: How to Be Present When You Feel Powerless internal family systems partswork powerlessness spiritual practice Apr 09, 2025

As Jesus’ enemies circled, and the end of everything approached, the disciples hoped Jesus would do something. It’s our first impulse: ‘what can we do?’ What Jesus did was go off alone to ‘watch and pray’. And he told his disciples to do the same. This sounded to them like “don’t do anything,” so th...

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