Spirituality and Prayer

Human beings have prayed ever since our first ancestors looked at a sunset and went ‘Wow', or shouted ‘Help' as they fled from a sabre-toothed tiger. Prayer and spirituality have been around since the dawn of time.

Each of us lives in a particular place, among real people, with daily routines to follow and things which have to be done.  We eat and sleep.  We work and shop.  We rest and play.  Each of us also knows what it's like to feel awe and wonder, joy and delight, anger and frustration, anxiety and disappointment, fear and pain.  We all have hopes and dreams.  Sometimes life is very, very good.  Sometimes it's horrible.  Most of the time it's much more ordinary.  Spirituality is about living to the full in all of this.           

Christianity, like all the other major world religions, does not believe that life is an accident.  Nor that we are in it alone.  Christians believe in God.  Christians believe that the Energy which drives the universe is intelligent and good.  Christians also believe that God is much more like a person than a force.  Above all, Christians believe that God's name and nature is ‘Love' and that God wants us to experience that love in our lives.

Different religions understand God in different ways, and have their own particular ways of thinking about him and of doing things.  But every religion is about spirituality, and every religion believes in prayer.  So do many people who do not belong to any religion at all.

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