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Prayer is important and there's never a bad time for it. Suggesting that it's somehow inappropriate or useless to pray in the wake of horror is like saying it's inappropriate and useless for your children to talk to you when they're faced with a personal crisis. Unless you're the worst parent on planet Earth, you would tell them exactly opposite. Come to me, you say. There's never a bad time to confide in me. And God says the same to us.
To pray is to enter into intimate conversation with our Father in Heaven. We should always be carrying on this conversation — "pray unceasingly," Scripture commands — but there's a reason why people cling all the more to God when tragedy strikes. It's the same reason our children, especially when they're young, run to us when they're afraid or in pain. We cannot help them if they don't come to us. If they hide, if they refuse our help, if they shut us out, then there isn't much we can do. Again, this is the case with God.— Matt Walsh
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