
What Prayer Can Do: Blanket of Peace
She found comfort while awaiting a cancer diagnosis.

She found comfort while awaiting a cancer diagnosis.

Unable to enter an overcrowded barn for a December mass, she felt left out in worshiping outside—until she realized she was not alone.
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She prayed for restored hearing–only to realize that the real healing was spiritual.

Offering a brief blessing to a friend or stranger can have a profound effect.

She was only a child when she prayed for an angel to watch over a family seen in a newspaper.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.—Romans 12:1 (NIV)

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