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3 Prayers That Always Work

My mother was hospitalized with cancer the summer of my fourteenth year. Day after day, I knelt at a crude altar at a church camp in Missouri, desperate, begging God to heal my mother.

She died a few months later.

Prayer doesn’t always “work”: As hard or as much as we may pray, we

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