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A Prayer about Living like We’re Dying
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 Heavenly Father, In the novel I just read, a professor gives her college English students a short essay question: “What would you do if you knew you only had forty days left to live?”*...
A Prayer about Honoring the Aging
The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old. Proverbs 20:29 Everlasting Father, In a world that often marginalizes or mocks the elderly, transform us into people who honor and value the elderly. Even as we age,...
Living like We’re Dying
Hi Friends, Coming to you today with a tough subject — how to prepare for death. And yet, one I believe many people want to know more about but are afraid to ask. If that’s you, I hope this gives some encouragement and guidance. (And I’d love to know…what are the...
A Gospel Legacy
A Living Legacy At ninety-something, Mrs. Sarah surely knows her days in this world are numbered. Each week I watch the frail figure with snowy white hair as she slowly, painfully, wobbles her way to her seat on the second row. Though she can no longer stand for the...
A Prayer about Endurance in Suffering
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 1:9 Precious Jesus, In your Word, and by your...
Why Caregivers Need to Care for Themselves
Will You Care for Yourself, Dear Caregiver? In the lowest point of my caregiving season, my body cried out for help, but I refused to listen. Strands of hair came out in my hands as I washed it. Dark trenches formed under my eyes. Colds came and went like the weather....
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Receiving the Help Others Offer
Will you receive the help others offer? “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!” Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Gracious...
A Prayer about Remembering God’s Wonders
Have you remembered God’s wonders lately? In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe. Psalm 78:32 Merciful God, In Psalm 78, Asaph tells a bewildering story of your people, the Israelites: Your people, who ran away in the day of...
A Prayer about the Very Near Word
How does the Word come near to your heart? But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. Deuteronomy 30:14 Author of Life, As this day dawns, many words have probably already crossed the screens of our lives— words of...
A Prayer about Meditating on Good Things
What kinds of things do you give your attention to? Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable — if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything...
A Prayer about What to Do with Anxiety
How do you deal with feeling anxious? The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4:5-6 Ever-present Lord, In these troubling days, Thank you for this...
A Prayer about Our Reason for Rejoicing
What gives you joy? Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4 Gracious Lord, In these days of sorrow over wars and plagues and division, help us understand what Paul is not saying and what he is saying. He’s not saying, Cheer up! Put on...