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8 Ways to Care for Caregivers
If you’re reading this column, chances are you know a caregiver or act as a caregiver for a loved one. According to a 2020 AARP study, over 53 million people now act as unpaid caregivers in the United States. This study also revealed that caregiving can be hazardous...
A Prayer about Honoring the Elderly
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, may...
A Prayer about Understanding Sickness and Healing
‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9:2 Healing Lord, Thank you for the compassion you show the sick and those who need healing. Correct wrong assumptions about sickness and healing. Sadly, too many of us have been told that...
A Prayer about the Pain of Living in a Fallen World
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Romans 8:21 Compassionate Father, We who live in Western culture are keenly aware that we don’t suffer the way people in other cultures do— we don’t have to search...
A Prayer of Lament for Those Who Die Young
He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!’ Revelation 22:20 Merciful God, We believe you to be merciful; help our unbelief. We admit, we struggle to understand why you would take young people home when it seems to...
A Prayer about Living and Dying in Faith
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Hebrews 11:13 Heavenly Father, Whatever our age, Make us ready always to “die...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Drawing Near to Jesus
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 King Jesus, Yesterday, my daily prayer gang and I wondered at your sympathy, your capacity to suffer with us, to get inside...
A Prayer about Jesus’ Sympathy for Us
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 Gracious and Generous God, How often do we pause to consider how a sympathetic Savior changes...
A Prayer about Caring for Our Grandchildren’s Parents
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 Heavenly Father, Our son laughingly told me before he and his wife left for the week that they understood the “grandparent tax” — the price...
A Prayer about Feeling Desperate in Illness
For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Great Physician, What good news — you are near to the broken-bodied and save those who are crushed in spirit and in hope for health (See Psalm 34:18). Today, we...
A Prayer about the Joy of Being Rescued
So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing. Psalm 105:43 God of Joy and Rescue, How do we enjoy you? Here in this wonderful Psalm of rescue and redemption, we read about how you saved your people, the Israelites. You performed all sorts of...
A Prayer about Being United by Christ
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction. 1 Corinthians 1:10 Uniting Lord, We...