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Why prayer can devolve from communion to transaction

My morning prayers have become a grocery list of requests and I miss when they used to feel like conversations with something real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The reduction of spiritual practice to petition reveals how easily sacred relationship becomes utilitarian exchange.

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“Where Are You with The examined faith — living deliberately within a tradition?”

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