Daily Prayer
A Prayer about the Treasure of Christian Community
Do you treasure Christian community? I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. 2 John 1:2 Gracious God, Creator of Christian community, help us...
A Prayer about Clearing the Caregiver Fog
Will you join me in praying for caregivers today? Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city…. Revelation 22:1 Creator God, Today we lift up...
A Prayer about Flourishing in Old Age
Do you want to bear fruit in old age? They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green….Psalm 92:14 Everlasting God, We live in a world that urges us to fight aging, We live in a world that promises us eternal youth, if we will only apply this...
A Prayer about Praying in Stories of Suffering
Why should we pray in stories of suffering? She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. Luke 2:36 Answering God, How we thank you for the story of Anna, the 84-year-old widow who had known deep suffering. In her world,...
A Prayer about How to Spend Our Last Forty Days
Friends, today we continue yesterday’s meditation on how we would spend our days if we knew we had only forty left. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. James 4:14, ESV ...
A Prayer about Living like We’re Dying
What would you do if you knew you had 40 days to live? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 Heavenly Father, In the novel I just read, a professor gives her college English students a short essay question: “What would you do...
A Prayer about Honoring the Aging
How do we honor our aging? 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...
A Prayer about Our Worst Fears
Where do you go with your worst fears? Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. Isaiah 43:1 Redeeming Lord, We come to you today bringing our very worst fears: Fears of a terrible diagnosis, Fears of a terrorist attack, Fears of a...
A Prayer about Receiving the Help Others Offer
Will you receive the help others offer? “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!” Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Gracious...
A Prayer about Remembering God’s Wonders
Have you remembered God’s wonders lately? In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe. Psalm 78:32 Merciful God, In Psalm 78, Asaph tells a bewildering story of your people, the Israelites: Your people, who ran away in the day of...