Prayer and elite sport require the same kind of discipline – a daily practice that demands perseverance, even when it seems so not worth it. But isn’t it absurd to pray for your team to win? “The point lies not in God’s partisan enthusiasms or capricious passions, but in the nature of prayer itself. Prayer is about growing a relationship that gradually helps the one praying to see as God sees. Any honest and free relationship encourages the parties to express themselves freely, to be outrageous in their desires and to tell the truth. That is what I am doing when I raise with the almighty the possibility of swinging it Liverpool’s way.” (Nick Baines/The Guardian)
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