My Prayer to Humanity

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One of the yummiest parts of my day is found in the company of my family’s stillness as we sit around the dinner table just before we eat. “Should we have our moment of silence?” Gideon, my eight-year-old, the oldest of our four kids, reminds us. The other kids get excited and silence quickly blankets the room.

Of the many forms of prayer we express in our home, all of which I love, there is something unusually special about…