A Prayer to Pull Away to a Quiet Place Before Autumn Hits
The calendar is about to fill back up. New school schedules, new work projects, church commitments, and the steady accumulation of fall's demands are just around the corner. Autumn is an exciting seas...
27 Aug 7min
A Prayer to Turn to Jesus When You’re Too Tired
Sometimes exhaustion goes so deep that even turning to God feels like more than the body and spirit can manage. Not a crisis of faith, not a decision to walk away — just a weariness so complete that t...
26 Aug 7min
A Prayer for Those Longing for Peace in Creation
Wild animals carry a raw, simultaneous presence of beauty and danger that is difficult to fully articulate, which is exactly what makes the picture in Isaiah 11 so stunning. A wolf living with a lamb....
25 Aug 6min
A Prayer for When You're Tired of Fighting the Same Thing
Deuteronomy 20:4 was spoken by Moses, not to one soldier before one battle, but to an entire nation standing at the edge of years of warfare, enemy after enemy, again and again. What the priest was in...
24 Aug 8min
A Prayer When You Need Motivation
One of the most helpful insights for pushing through low motivation is surprisingly simple: just begin. Not with a plan for the whole task, not with a burst of enthusiasm that has to appear first, but...
23 Aug 7min
A Prayer When You Are Desperate
The woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5 lived in a desperate place for twelve years: physically weak, socially ostracized, considered unclean by everyone around her. And yet she never gave in to h...
22 Aug 7min
A Prayer to Have Hope When You Are Job Searching
Job searching is one of the most demoralizing experiences a person can walk through. Months of applications, qualified on paper, doing everything right, and still no interviews, no callbacks, no open ...
21 Aug 6min
A Prayer When You Don’t Really Get a Vote
Being passed over, dismissed, or disregarded, especially when you are the one with experience, expertise, or a genuine stake in the outcome, is one of the most frustrating experiences in human life. A...
20 Aug 7min
