[Our prayers for others] flow more easily /than those () we offer on our own behalf.
And it would be nice [to accept your view //that this just shows () we are made [to live by charity].
I’m afraid, however, I detect [two much less attractive reasons /for the ease of my own intercessory prayers].
One is that I am often, I believe, praying /for others /when I should be doing things for them.
It’s so much easier [to pray for a bore than to go and see him].
And the other is like unto it.
Suppose () I pray that you may be given grace /to withstand your besetting sin
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Well, all the work has to be done by God and you.
If I pray /against my own besetting sin there will be work for me.
[One] sometimes fights /shy of admitting an act /to be a sin for this very reason.
* FIGHT SHY OF definition: 1. to try to avoid something:
From Letters to Malcolm