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 […]
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to dedicate time to prayer. I know people who wake up in the early hours of the morning to read their daily devotional or to contemplate scripture. This is not me. And I gave up trying about a year ago. No, I’m not a quitter. I just […]
“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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