Pray Continually
In his conference address last weekend, President Eyring spoke about prayer. He made this observation about today’s world: “Yet despite turmoil and difficulty, faithful Latter-day Saints in hardship across the world have flooded heaven with prayers. In public and in private, they are petitioning the Lord for help, for comfort, for direction, and for personal peace for those they love. You may have seen in your congregations and in your homes that prayers have not only been more numerous but more heartfelt.” His comment invites us to consider whether our own prayers are more numerous and heartfelt as we are faced with more challenges. It also reminds me of this description of the Savior in the Garden of Gethsemane: “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). I like the fact that this verse number is twice that of the chapter number, suggesting perhaps a need for redoubling our efforts in pr...
