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What to Do When the News Is Overwhelming
Dear Friends, I don't know about you, but I can be sucked into the media scrolls and screens. In this season, perhaps more than ever, we need to remember where to set our minds. Enjoy this excerpt from From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace...
Worth Waiting For
In some areas of the world and our country, quarantine has ended. Meanwhile, many of us wait. Either we wait for lockdown to end, or we wait until we think it’s safer—for others and ourselves—to begin going out more. If you’re stuck in an endless wait, you’ll...
8 Ways to Grieve Canceled Milestones
I haven’t wanted to write about it, because to write about it would force me to face it. I was supposed to attend four graduations in May, four different children graduating from four different grad school programs. All canceled. Actually, one of those was a senior...
Counting Our Losses in the Midst of Crisis
Dear Readers, I don't have to tell you it is a season of suffering losses—suffering from anxiety about getting the COVID-19 virus, suffering from the illness itself, or suffering losses due to the precautions being taken. Today it seemed good to share one of the...
When God Changes Our Plans
This month, as we complete our series on planning and as I recover from hip replacement surgery, I am sharing an excerpt from The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in a Health Crisis. ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord....
The Real Reason We Don’t Have to Worry
Endless opportunities for worry… The state of our nation. Cyber attacks. Teenagers texting and driving. Loved ones addicted to destructive substances. Layoffs at work. An unwelcome diagnosis. Some days, some years, it seems that fresh opportunities for high...
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Daily Prayers
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...
A Prayer about Not Judging Others
Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged. Matthew 7:1-2 Holy Lord, Help us to correctly understand your prohibition against judging. On...
A Prayer about Our Soul-Thirst
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Psalm 42:2 Thirst-filling Lord, Today we lift up all who ache for you to appear, all who remember the days we used to lead the procession of praise (Psalm 42:4), all who now suffer turmoil within and attack from without...
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 Praying God’s Promises Back to Him
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever. Exodus...
A Prayer about Preventing Bitterness
See to it than on one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and by it many become defiled… Hebrews 12:15 Merciful Lord, May we hear your dire warning to guard our hearts from the toxic root of bitterness....