Volume 2, Issue 1, January 1995


HEALTH AND PRAYER

Our belief system, our feeling of being connected to others and all living things, and our concept of God impacts on our health. At the core of most religions is prayer, when we communicate with a higher power.

The Value of Prayer

* A chance to pause from the treadmill of life.
* An opportunity to search inward, meditate, communicate with something greater than ourselves and to listen.
* To focus on the higher ideals of love, peace, trust and hope.

Mother Teresa once said that the most significant ailment in the world today is spiritual deprivation - a feeling of being unworthy of love, feeling unable to give or receive love and feeling there is a wall separating us from ourselves and others.

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"Religion NOW" is published in limited edition by the Rev. Ross E. Readhead, B.A., B.D., Certificate of Corrections, McMaster University, in the interest of furthering knowledge and participation in religion. Dialogue is invited and welcomed.