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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 Anticipating the Joys of Heaven
Are you looking forward to heaven? My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. Philippians 1:23 Heavenly Father, We confess, some of the descriptions of heaven have made us think it would be boring. People with wings and robes floating around...
A Prayer about Why We Make a Joyful Noise
Have you made a joyful noise lately? Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Psalm 100:1 Joy-Giving Lord, You know that I’m not a very good singer, but I sure do like to “make a joyful...
A Prayer about Praying for Moms of Young Children
Do you pray for moms of littles? 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...
A Prayer about Never Being Rejected Again
Do you know how beloved you are to God? …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...
A Prayer about God’s Covenant of Peace
Do you long for peace on earth? 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...
A Prayer about Dysfunctional Families
Have you ever thought there is no hope for some 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...