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A motivation for prayer

Posted on February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 by Rebecca

”I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time — waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God — it changes me.”

– C.S. Lewis

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