A Prayer for Help in the Face of Life’s Mountains
There are days when the mountain in front of us feels so large and our resources feel so small that simply taking the next step seems impossible. The pain that won't relent, the demands that keep pili...
18 Touko 6min
A Prayer for the One Shrinking Back from Showing Hospitality
It doesn't always take a grand gesture to change the trajectory of a relationship — sometimes it takes a pineapple upside-down cake. The simple act of one neighbor walking across a yard with a foil-wr...
17 Touko 6min
A Prayer to Receive the Father's Discipline
When we sin and feel the weight of it, most of us have one instinctive response: hide. We pull back from God, we feel the shame settle in, and we wonder if we have disappointed Him too deeply this tim...
16 Touko 7min
A Prayer for Jesus to Calm the Storms of Life
Some storms announce themselves dramatically — a frightening diagnosis, the loss of a job, a relationship falling apart. Others creep in quietly — the steady drip of stress, the thing that squeaks in ...
15 Touko 6min
A Prayer to Embrace Imperfection
We live in a world that has made perfection into a pursuit — and most of us are exhausted from chasing it. The pressure to appear finished, polished, and put-together follows us into our relationships...
14 Touko 7min
A Prayer to Remember Who You Are in Christ
There are seasons when the voices around us — and sometimes within us — speak so loudly that we begin to forget who we truly are. Guilt whispers that we have strayed too far from grace. The words of o...
13 Touko 7min
A Prayer to Show Mercy to Others
There are few tests of genuine faith more revealing than the moment someone wrongs us — and we have to decide what to do with it. The instinct to hold on, to keep score, to wait for an apology before ...
12 Touko 8min
A Prayer of Thanks for Not Getting What You Prayed For
Can you think of a prayer God didn't answer the way you wanted — one that left you confused, disappointed, maybe even questioning whether He was listening at all? And can you look back on it now and s...
11 Touko 7min
