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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis — WisdomDeck honest review
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

by C.S. Lewis

Lewis's last book, letters to an imagined friend on the practice and puzzles of prayer: distraction, petition, liturgy, the body. Conversational and wise.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Pray as you can, not as you can't.
  2. Bring the real you.
  3. Doubt is part of the conversation.

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