Last semester, the campus initiative to encourage prayer began. I oversaw the Monday prayer sessions at the Library, and we typically had 4 or 5 students come, sometimes a staff person, and sometimes a graduate student. I emailed Phyllis Tickle for permission to use her Divine Hours meditations and adapted them to work in our short time frame of 15 minutes. Each week I selected a division or department on campus to pray for and some student group or concern to lift up.
This semester I wasn't sure what response to expect, but didn't anticipate much change. Was I surprised! The first week 20 people showed up. We had moved the prayer time from the conference room to the fireside reading room. We gathered the tables and chairs together and quickly entered into prayer. After the designated 15 minutes was up, I brought the time to a close and invited those who wished to continue praying to stay and do so.
About half of the students decided to take the prayertime to the dorm chapel and continue on there. Wow! I am amazed at the response and the intensity and the dedication. This is wonderful. I am hopeful that it will continue.
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