Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Seeing the Light
Glorious God, Though the twelfth day of Christmas has come and gone, the defrocked trees lie dried and withered by the curb, may we see the glory of Christ-with-us, the good news that our light has come, today and every day of this year. Peel the scales from our eyes,...
A Prayer of Hope for Broken and Betrayed Hearts
Lord God, Who among us has not shed tears like David over the agonizing betrayal of a friend turned enemy? I lift up my friends to you who cry out in bewilderment: “For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals...
A Prayer for a Manic Monday
Father, I woke up with my eye twitching, a sure sign that my nervous system is in overdrive as I think of all the things I need to get done on this Monday. Set my mind on things above, on your sovereign and sure reign over every plan and purpose in this cosmos, ...
A Prayer about Becoming Children of God
Abba Father, On this second Sunday after Christmas, may we not lose the wonder at what you have done in the incarnation, the sending of your Son as a human baby, fully divine, fully human. According to Paul, you sent Jesus at just the right...
A Prayer about Remembering God’s Goodness in 2020
Steadfastly Faithful Lord, On the eve of a long-awaited new year, we cannot fail to look back on this past year and see that you have done marvelous things. In the midst of grief and anxiety and loss, you have been ever-present with us. You have made your “salvation...
A Prayer about the Word-Made-Flesh
Jesus, We confess, we complain sometimes, “I just wish I could have known Jesus personally. I wish I were alive when he walked on the earth.” Forgive our blindness and unbelief. Open our eyes to see your kindness, your nearness to us in your Word, you who are the...
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...
A Prayer about Our Sympathetic Priest
Father, It’s two days after Christmas. As we worship you today, may we grasp afresh the life-changing reality that Jesus, in his sinless humanity, is sympathetic to our weakness. How can this be? In my favorite book of the year, Gentle and Lowly, Dane Ortlund explains...
A Prayer about a King Who Became a Baby
King Jesus, On this Christmas morn, I marvel at your humility. You, the King of the cosmos, the Ruler of the universe, deigned to become a cooing, crying, wetting, nursing infant. You chose to make yourself weak and lowly, utterly dependent on a human mother and...
A Prayer about a Silent Night
A prayer about a silent night: Heavenly Father, It’s shaping up for many to be a pretty silent night— We will stay home rather than attending a Christmas Eve service in person, no hilarious scenes of shoving siblings during the invariably chaotic children’s sermon, no...