A Prayer Because the Silence Is the Hardest Part
A seventeen-year-old in a dorm room, alone for the first time, with a rule she had made for herself: no calling home before Friday. She would prove she could do this. So she sat in the silence and cou...
12 Sep 7min
A Prayer to Forgo Comparison
Scrolling through social media on a day that already feels heavy is one of the fastest ways to make a hard day harder. A friend's vacation photos, another's daughter's list of achievements, before-and...
11 Sep 7min
A Prayer for the Woman Waiting, Whispering Prayers, and Wanting a Child
God sees the woman who is aching for a child. He sees her in the middle of the night, in the quiet places where the longing is too heavy to carry out loud, in the vulnerable late-night moments when wo...
10 Sep 6min
A Prayer of Repentance Without Condemnation
Repentance has a reputation problem. For many people, the word carries a weight of shame, punishment, and finger-pointing that makes it something to avoid rather than something to run toward. But that...
9 Sep 7min
A Prayer to Recharge
A camera battery that is allowed to run completely down takes far longer to recharge than one that is topped up consistently after a few uses. The same principle applies to human beings — and yet most...
8 Sep 8min
A Prayer to Appreciate Labor Day
Work is not a consequence of the Fall. It is a gift that preceded it. Before sin entered the world, before anything broke or became difficult, God placed man in the Garden of Eden to work it and take ...
7 Sep 7min
A Prayer When Your Mind Feels Pulled in Every Direction
The more we divide our attention, the more scattered our thoughts become — and yet the pressure to multitask, to keep every plate spinning at once, can feel inescapable in a life this full and this fa...
6 Sep 8min
A Prayer for the Basket Season of Your Adult Child
Jochebed, the mother of Moses, understood what it means to do everything you possibly can for a child and then face the moment when your hands must let go. She waterproofed the basket with tar and pit...
5 Sep 7min
