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When years of prayer seem to change nothing

I pray for my son every night but he's been addicted to heroin for four years and nothing changes and I don't know if I'm supposed to keep praying or accept that prayer doesn't work.

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Faith collides with the mystery of unanswered longing and the helplessness of love.

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