Instead, face the future with prayer, and with trust in God's provision for your needs.
And it will only intensify the clashes between those who want to invoke specific deities, and those who have amorphous or other religious beliefs – as if both of those groups weren't preparing for future battles over prayer already.
Whatever the struggles or transgressions, we can change the course of our future, through repentance, prayer, righteousness and self-sacrifice.
Rather, it is the genesis to the potentiality of hope for countless mothers and fathers who have squandered their retirement or mortgaged their future on the prayer of saving their child life.
In the Nazi schools charged with training Germany's future elite, Christian prayers were replaced with Teutonic rituals and sun-worship ceremonies.
In Kutch, where few buildings withstood the tremors, more than 700,000 are homeless, caught in a hideous limbo, their pasts in a heap, their futures in a prayer.
He writes very movingly about how his own experience of falling in love "had a religious element," which both he and his future wife acknowledged in spontaneous prayer: "The prayers were at once formal and improvisational, clear spirited but tentative, absolute but open ended".
When Benjamin Franklin proposed that each session in the future open with a prayer, Hamilton allegedly replied that he saw no need to call in "foreign aid".
"No proposal that does not at least generate the appearance of future control has a prayer," he said, adding that Democrats risk alienating some of their own voters in pushing for a wide legalization program.
She opens the video recording with a prayer, leading future viewers to dedicate this time to God, as in the Christian one.
