Living Story Blog
Read the Numbering Your Days Column Here
A Prayer about Freeing Our Hearts
Lord Jesus, May we stop our scrolling for one minute to consider your merciful mission: When a bully taunts our child; when our child turns his heart away from you, Our hearts break. When trusted allies become enemies, when we act like enemies toward trusted...
Christ’s Power for Our Weakness
Dear Friends, as we continue to consider goals and planning, it's also good to recognize the frustrations we may experience in our weakness and how God may be working to restore us. Enjoy this meditation from From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding...
A Prayer about Healing and Recovery
Merciful God, As I prepare to go in this morning for my second new hip in 2020, I am thankful for the variety of ways you heal our bodies. In this past year, many of us have met our match, a desperate need for healing and recovery from the dread COVID-19 virus. Thank...
Eight Ways the Church Can Care for the Mentally Ill
Dear Friends, It's not surprising that the holiday season can be hard on those afflicted with a mental disorder. The church is uniquely placed to respond, and now is the time to learn how we can better love the afflicted. I hope this blog helps us all consider how we...
Why Inviting Others into Your Grief Matters
Have you ever had say something completely insensitive to you when you were grieving a loss? In today’s blog, we consider why we need to take the risk of inviting others to grieve with us, even when they may get it wrong. (This is an outtake from From Recovery to...
Knowing the Knowledge that Changes the World
Although this excerpt from The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis was written about seeking certainty in the midst of health crisis, it applies to all of the ways we may seek to “know,” “to have certainty,” and how God calls us to...
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This means that I occasionally recommend books, and if you use that link to purchase the book, I get paid a small commission, but you pay the same price.
Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Praying for Moms of Young Children
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 Precious Father, Today we lift up all of those moms of newborns, infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. You know how very weary they are, Lord. We ask that...
A Prayer about Never Being Rejected Again
…you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you. Isaiah 43:3 Loving and Beloved Lord, On the day set apart on the global calendar to celebrate human love, we recognize that it’s a hard day for many. Some endure the seemingly daily experience of...
A Prayer about God’s Covenant of Peace
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you… Isaiah 54:8-9 Promise-keeping Father, In this world so set on strife, what a profound promise this is: Even where there is utter chaos on this earth, your...
A Prayer about Dysfunctional Families
So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! Genesis 37:19 Author God, Thank you for your Word which gives us hope that you can redeem even the worst of our...
A Prayer about the Love that Binds Us Together
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:5-6 Lover of our Soul, Today...
A Prayer about Remembering the Wonders of the Lord
We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders. Psalm 78:4 Wonder-Working God, As a lover of stories, I’ve always appreciated Asaph’s call to tell...