When Pain Overtakes Joy and What to Do About It
Leaning into Lament Lament is part of honest communication between God and man. It bridges the "give thanks in all circumstances and rejoice" with "in this world you will have many troubles." Expressing both rejoicing and suffering is integral to a growing...
How Our Focus Guards, Guides, and Grounds
Focusing Power I'm learning that my quick skimming of articles, emails, social media posts, and updates leads me to a lack of focus in my life. I use to be able to read for hours, getting completely lost in the journey the author takes me on. Now, I'm lucky if...
A Prayer for Wonder
Hello dear friends, December slipped in wearing white and displaying crystals dancing on delicate branches. Its beauty on display reminds me that even winter storms display artistry by a Master Artist. Will I have eyes to see? Will you? The next four weeks will...
A Prayer for When You Need to Seek God
I'm reading a book on worship--what it is, what it's not, and what it means for me as a follower of Christ. So often we start with the doing for God or we focus on becoming and we grow frustrated. Our doing seems unfulfilling and becoming becomes...
To Remain in Him–a Prayer for Your Heart
A Prayer to Abide “Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine and you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in...
A Prayer for Cups to Overflow in Your Life
Cups overflow or empty? Our identity in Christ covers three basic needs: significance, security, and acceptance. It’s out of these three things that our ability to minister to others without experiencing twisting and turning based on their approval or...
A Prayer to Find Joy When Joy is Hard to Find
We help one another find joy because of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's keep walking in faith as we live in our present. Sometimes our “nows” fill us with excitement, and other times they fill us with trepidation. But God, in his infinite...
A Prayer for Joy When You Need It
A Prayer for Joy Do you ever feel like joy hides like an elusive toddler? You can hear it laughing, but you can't seem to find it? This week's prayer for joy will help. Life contains joys and sorrows. It brings us times of sweet fellowship and...
When Your Heart Needs Perspective in the Waiting
There's hope for perspective in the waiting. My perspective in the waiting gets clouded by my impatience. Waiting. I don't love it. It can make me feel crabby and in the long waits for answers to prayer, it can make me feel hopeless. And hopelessness is a...
A Prayer to Release and Experience Peace
It's time to release. What are you gripping? Do you ever feel like if you let go, you'll fall into a chasm of hopelessness? There's a time to fight and hang on for dear life and then there's a time to release. And sometimes the release...
The Psalms Prayer Project Volume 3
Do you ever feel like the earth is giving way beneath your feet and everything you thought to be true and right turns out to be sideways and upside down? I love these verses from Psalms 46:1-5 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in...
The Psalms Prayer Series: Part 2
The Psalms Prayer Series Many of the Psalms reference imagery that gives us an ability to express our hearts and to know comfort. Such as: The Lord is my rock and fortress who reaches down and draws me out of deep waters. Or: he makes my feet like the feet of a...