A Prayer to Reclaim Rest
After thousands of years of biblical wisdom available to us, humans are still stressing over whether there is any peace to be found in the daily struggle to survive and thrive. We overfill our lives w...
21 Juli 0s
A Prayer to Know God's Plan Is Not to Harm You
Waking up in a recovery room twelve hours after a surgery that was supposed to take six to eight, with a foggy brain and a numb body and the immediate awareness that something must have gone wrong — a...
20 Juli 7min
A Prayer for When God’s Timing Doesn’t Make Sense
Most of us prefer the path to be direct and short. When life requires a longer route — application after application with no offer, a caregiving season that stretches on without relief, a waiting peri...
19 Juli 6min
A Prayer for Those Crushed in Spirit
Little Mary was certain she would play Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Sunday school play. Her name was Mary. She knew the whole story. And when her teacher announced she would play Elizabeth instea...
18 Juli 6min
A Prayer for Perseverance through Pain
When James wrote his letter to the twelve scattered tribes, the first Christians were being driven into poverty and hunger. They were not facing mild inconvenience — they were grappling to survive. An...
17 Juli 6min
A Prayer to Sing in Defiance of the Darkness
The tension hadn't lifted. The problem hadn't changed. And yet a mother reached out, gathered her daughters' hands, and started to sing — smiling, dancing, filling the anger-stricken air with words ab...
16 Juli 7min
A Prayer to Grow Even When It's Uncomfortable
Noah built an ark having never seen rain, spending decades on a task that invited mockery and tested his endurance at every turn. Moses, a man with a speech impediment, a criminal record, and every hu...
15 Juli 7min
A Prayer for Repentance Without Shame
Shame has a way of taking up enormous space in the heart. When regret and embarrassment over our failures settle in, we become convinced that we do not deserve forgiveness — and so instead of bringing...
14 Juli 7min
