Saying blessings before my meals has taken on a new meaning as I give thanks and pray that some nourishment will be retained as my food speeds through my system.

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I'm also pregnant as I write this and I hope and pray that everything will go well a second time and we will be lucky enough to have a brother or sister for Emily.

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When I was brought up as a Catholic boy, you were supposed to pray to St Jude for hopeless causes, so I've started doing that.

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"I pray that Berea College never falls into the same traps as Cooper Union, " Robinson wrote.

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As I travel across the country folks often ask me what is it that I pray for.

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"I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines, " McCarrick said, quoting from Kennedy's letter.

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"I know it sounds pretty fricking bizarre, but we pray a lot as a family, " Hendricks told investigators in a room at the Pickens County Sheriff's Office, just hours after authorities discovered the bodies.

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I'm just asking for people to pray for him and families that weren't as fortunate.

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