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When your heart contradicts your prayers

I pray for my enemies like I was taught but secretly hope bad things happen to them, which makes me feel like either prayer is fake or I'm a terrible person.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The disconnect between spiritual obligation and authentic emotion reveals the challenge of forced forgiveness and prescribed love.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”

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