Do you want to be right?

Here's a thought that hit me. The desire or need to be right can really hurt us. There's a saying, and I've heard it two ways: "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?" or "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be close?" The latter is the title of an article on Psychology Today. As the author points out, that need to be right can destroy emotional connection. It comes about because of our need for control, and we can challenge it so that others don't have to challenge us. 

Prayer

I have been struggling with prayer. I was looking for things to help me understand what prayer means to me now. I found three things that were helpful. 

- A Simple Guide to Prayer. There are many guides like this, this is just the one I came across. The basics of traditional Christian prayer. 

- Some Unitarian Universalist Views of Prayer. How others in the Unitarian Universalist tradition see and practice prayer.

- Heretics Faith:  Prayer, Meditation, Contemplation. A sermon by Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr. of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis on prayer, which includes different traditions of prayer.