Devotional for April 2

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I will bring the one third through the fire;
    I will refine them as one refines silver,
    and I will test them as one tests gold.
They will call upon my name, and I will answer them; I will say, “They are my people,” and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

                    —Zechariah 13:9 (New American Bible—Revised Edition)

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 “The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

 

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