“Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.”

Meaning

This reads as an expansion of prayer beyond private needs into shared responsibility. It can be taken to mean that concern for a community should include people who carry public trust or public risk, and that prayer is one way of holding all of them in care. It lands in moments of worry, when someone wants to do something for others but cannot act directly.

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Originally said in English.

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