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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 Not Wearing Purple When We’re Old
Do you need help resisting self-indulgence? I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 Holy God, With all due respect to the delightful poet Jenny Joseph, who wrote the humorous poem, “Warning” about how she would...
A Prayer about Encouraging the Faint-Hearted
Are you feeling faint-hearted, or do you know someone who is? Encourage the fainthearted, and help the weak… 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Heavenly Father, At times, our burdens become so great that we struggle to pray, to believe, to hope. At such times, we thank you...
A Prayer about Answers to Prayer
Have you ever wondered why God hasn’t answered your prayer? Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Mark 11:23...
A Prayer about Walking in the Light of the Lord’s Glory
Do you know that the Lord is with you? Happy are the people who know the joyful shout; Lord, they walk in the light from your face. Psalm 89:15 Everpresent Father, Jesus Immanuel, Indwelling Spirit, We confess, we often walk through our days forgetting your...
A Prayer about Surrendering Control as We Age
How do you deal with your losses to aging or with your parents’ losses? And Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.’ Luke 1:38 Eternal Lord, Mary was a young woman when she spoke these words. What wisdom and faith she...
A Prayer about Our To-Not-Do List for Today
What’s on your “to-not-do” list today? You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13 Lord God, Thank you for placing these verses in Exodus in front of me and the accompanying Heidelberg catechism question and answer 105: What does God require in the sixth commandment? “I am...