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WHY<br />
PRAY?<br />
A fresh unfolding<br />
of the mystery<br />
Western PA Stanley Tam<br />
BREATHING NEW LIFE PRAYER’S CUMULATIVE EFFECT<br />
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y prayer journey began with<br />
my praying dad. As a young<br />
child, I would awaken early<br />
every morning during his long sessions<br />
of prayer. I was in my top bunk in our<br />
tiny house for a family of seven. Just on<br />
the other side of the thin wall, he was<br />
kneeling at his desk chair in his back-<br />
porch-turned-pastor’s study. He met God<br />
on his knees at that chair, and I listened. I<br />
learned about conversational prayer.<br />
In those early morning hours<br />
I began my own prayer<br />
journey with the covers pulled<br />
up over my head, a practice<br />
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