Prayer is Powerful
For some, “prayer” can be a scary word. It sounds so loaded, so religious, so… profound. I used to feel this way, too. Prayer was something for the super-religious folk, those who wanted to pray to their God or Jesus or whatever. That just wasn’t my thing. Even though I believed strongly in God and do consider myself religious, it just seemed a little strange to me to talk to the sky every night before bed, hoping that some omnipotent voice would speak back to me and give me everything I ever wanted. I relied strictly on meditation, thinking that with enough personal insight, I would solve all the deep emotional troubles that led me to disordered eating. There’s nothing wrong with meditation (in fact I think we could all benefit from a daily practice), and perhaps that is where I could have found my answer, but then my eyes were opened to a new way of thinking about prayer. I learned that prayer is about saying, “I am powerful, but I also can’t do everything by myse...