We are all intertwined in one another's story. We are all part of each other's communities despite our seeming differences.
If you want to learn how to pray, go to Africa.
Prayer thrives in the squatters corner, in the orphanage filled with malaria-stricken infants, around murky disease-infested ponds — the only water source for entire villages.
How can we in the privileged developed countries have grown too familiar with, less dependent on such a divine gift as a regular dialogue with our creator? How can we teach our hearts the hope-filled prayer Rouse found in Africa that keeps track of miracles instead of pains? that considers prayer as essential to life as breath and water?
Follow Rouse on her pilgrimage of discovery as she journeys through several African countries, recording the prayers and realities of the people. She and her companions met "people with swollen hearts, not just swollen bellies; … people caring for their communities, not holding out hands for help."
As one reviewer says, "This story is not only a challenge of our conceptions and apathy but a testament to the unbounded power of prayer."
Filled with beautiful poignant photographs, Like Breath and Water will make you fall more deeply in love with prayer.
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