Service topic for February 1st

Why Pray?

Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer

Am I speaking only for myself when I say that we UUs have a difficult relationship with prayer?  Some of us are walking away from negative associations with the word.  Some of us have other spiritual practices that fill the space where prayer often lives.  Some of us feel that we do not have room in our lives for prayer.

In the book “Simply Pray,” Erik Walker Wikstrom makes a case for adding prayer into our lives as a way to connect to our individual idea of what is Holy.