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Coping with Grief During the Holidays: Six Ways to Grieve with Hope
Dear Friends, As we enter the holiday season, I am all too aware that many of you are grieving the loss of a loved one or the loss of health for yourself or for a loved one. Two years ago, the first holiday season after my mom had died, I described my grief this way:...
Planning to Prepare Your Legacy: 7 Steps to Begin Sharing Your Legacy
If you’ve been around my blog for awhile, you know why I’m passionate about helping people prepare a practical and spiritual legacy: first, my father died in 2017, leaving very little guidance about his wishes despite the fact that he knew for two years of his...
Caring for Caregivers: Four Ways You Can Help
Hi Friends,This month I have a special offering, an excerpt from my new book, Preparing for Glory: Biblical Answers to 40 Questions on Living and Dying in Hope of Heaven. It’s available now from all of your favorite booksellers. I’m offering a free virtual book...
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 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 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 God’s Gift of Furry Friends
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 Comforting Creator, As I take our twelve-year-old dog to the vet today, I...
A Prayer about Knowing Ourselves
So if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! 2 Corinthians 5:17 All-Knowing God, When we begin to know you, and when we begin to understand the hope, joy, and relief of being known...
A Prayer about Being Known by God
You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. Psalm 139:1 Gracious God, As we prayed yesterday, we are so thankful that you have invited us to know you, but we are even more thankful that you know us. We confess, we often fear being known, because we are afraid...
A Prayer about Really Knowing God
Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me… Jeremiah 9:23-24 Gracious God, May we learn to boast in the wild...
A Prayer about What to Do When We’re Afraid
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 Faithful Lord, Thank you for your compassion for our fearfulness. Today, we bring our fears to you: When we are afraid that we will fail at work, at school, as caregivers [name any failures you fear], we put our...
A Prayer about Trusting in the Lord for All Things
But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7 All-Wise God, Forgive us for placing our confidence or finding our security and significance in any number of idols that are not you— work, money, looks, family, friends, food,...