Any physician knows that. Prayer is an expression of love and care. And I know that love and care can heal. Many people in this congregation, when troubled or ill, ask that we mention them during our meditation time. It is comforting, healing, encouraging to them to know that we, their religious community, are paying prayerful attention.
Prayer is a means of moving from chaos into wholeness.
It overcomes our divideness. God, if you will. That partnership can work wonders. I have been talking about can overcome illness and disease, since illness and disease are often expressions of fragmentation and dividedness. What we create in the world, therefore, is often partial, incomplete.