When someone you love is sick, you can pray as simply as this: “Lord, [name] is ill. Ease the pain, guide the doctors and nurses, and restore [name] to health, if it is your will. Amen.” The older prayer books have short prayers for the sick too, and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer asks God to “behold, visit, and relieve” the sick person. We pray alongside the care of doctors and nurses, never instead of it. If the symptoms…

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