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How crisis prayer creates guilt when emergencies pass

I started praying again after my father's heart attack but only because I was desperate and now that he's better I feel like a hypocrite for stopping.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Authentic spiritual response to crisis can feel inauthentic in retrospect, creating shame about the conditional nature of human faith.

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