I have a pet peeve. I think it started sometime in my twenties when my then brother-in-law was spending the summer with us. He was just a teenager and sloppy, as I imagine most teenage boys are. Not having any kids of my own yet, I wasn’t used to having to clean up someone else’s […]
So much praying, so little listening. Desperate pleas asking for wishes to be granted without consideration of God’s best intention for you. So how do you know that your prayers have been answered? What does God’s voice sound like to you? Maybe it’s not a voice. Maybe it’s the lyrics of a song, a synchronistic […]
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” I remember thinking as a child that this traditional bedtime prayer my mom prayed with me (until I was about seven) was creepy and awful. […]
Do you remember when you were a little kid and a loud, rumbling thunderstorm would come through in the middle of the night? The kind of storm that was so violent the house would shake when lightning struck. What did you do to calm yourself? Did you grab the covers and pull them tightly over […]
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