Word: prays
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...friend Dave Wardell, an official of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, were preparing to travel from Boulder to Pueblo when McCartney was struck by a vision of stadiums filled with men willing to become deeply committed Christians. "He jumped in the car and said, 'Let's pray,'" says Wardell. "We prayed for three and a half hours. This guy is strong. He's stronger than bear's breath...
Without restricting the location of liquor stores, cities allow vendors to pray on the most vulnerable elements of society, the poor and the young. So long as the above steps are not taken, vendors will turn their profits by selling their wares to those who are least likely to understand the consequences of drinking and therefore to moderate their drinking...
...decades Mother Teresa was elected head of the order with only one dissenting vote: her own. But in the fall of 1996, she nearly succumbed to heart disease, and the sisters realized it was time to elect a successor. In March, 123 representative nuns gathered to pray for wisdom and chose a Hindu Brahmin convert named Sister Nirmala, whom one called a compassionate "carbon copy" of their revered leader...
...woman who has taken Teresa's place demurs, saying, "I'm not Mother Teresa; I'm Sister Nirmala. Please don't call me Mother." This 64-year-old, 4-ft. 10-in. nun, who sometimes refers to distances by the number of Rosaries she can pray while traveling them, did not make her Christian conversion until age 17. She was moved to a new faith by the terrible religious carnage that attended the Indian partition in 1947 and by observing Mother Teresa in Calcutta, years later, attending to its refugees. "It was inspiration at first sight," says Nirmala, who became...
...longer can Murphy hand the ball to Hu 20 times a game and pray for the best...