As we took the final few steps in the snow up to Goecha La, Kanchenjunga emerged in all its icebound glory right in front of us, beyond the fluttering prayer flags, beyond the wide Talung Valley.
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of Christian prayer practice, beyond rote recitation.
During the Middle Ages, the monastic traditions of both Western and Eastern Christianity moved beyond vocal prayer to Christian meditation.
Many are, he acknowledges, "muffled prayers," but beyond that he is not eager to reveal much.
Are changes beyond prayer and exhortation needed to combat the growing shortage of priests?
Mohamed and his fellow Mubarak supporters plan on protesting the moment prayer ends, but beyond the starting point he could not predict anything: "What's written will happen".
As I always do, I looked up at the Prayer Tree and beyond and thanked God for His protection and guidance.
They said "supermax" jail inmates, albeit confined to cells for the "vast majority" of their time, were provided with services and activities – television, radio, newspapers, books, hobby and craft items, telephone calls, social visits, correspondence with families, group prayer – which went "beyond what was provided in most prisons in Europe".
Beyond prayer, that country has close to zero services to help its people.
Mandi Schwartz, the Yale hockey player whose fight with leukemia has drawn two years of prayers in hockey circles and beyond, learned last week that her cancer had returned.
