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Watch and Pray: How to Be Present When You Feel Powerless
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Apr 09, 2025
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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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