said to himself, She didn’t understand my question. I want to know what makes the music so inspirational. It was months before he realized that the life in the music comes from prayer. That’s the formula. Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, “I ought to pray,” I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray. Yes, the roughness of inner-city life
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