A small green seedling pushes through cracked orange earth.

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John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The instruction redirects a prayer from the conditions of life toward the person who must face them. Instead of asking for difficulty to disappear, it asks for greater strength. The contrast treats the capacity to meet a challenge as the more valuable object of the request.

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