HE SWUNG THE SLEDGE HAMMER. The boulder cracked beautifully in two. His neighbor wondered: "How could he do that with one blow?" What the neighbor hadn't seen were the 39 blows of yesterday that weakened what seemed unbreakable stone.
Some of today's global threats seem even more resistant than unbreakable stone. It's natural to ask, "How can my single prayer affect the world's financial needs, or global warming, or stop acts of terror?"
Yet just as no lie—no matter how enormous—is impermeable to the effect of truth, so no world problem can withstand consistently applied prayer. Key word: consistently. Otherwise we never get to blow number 40.
