A Prayer for Those Longing for Peace in Creation
Wild animals carry a raw, simultaneous presence of beauty and danger that is difficult to fully articulate, which is exactly what makes the picture in Isaiah 11 so stunning. A wolf living with a lamb....
25 Elo 6min
A Prayer for When You're Tired of Fighting the Same Thing
Deuteronomy 20:4 was spoken by Moses, not to one soldier before one battle, but to an entire nation standing at the edge of years of warfare, enemy after enemy, again and again. What the priest was in...
24 Elo 8min
A Prayer When You Need Motivation
One of the most helpful insights for pushing through low motivation is surprisingly simple: just begin. Not with a plan for the whole task, not with a burst of enthusiasm that has to appear first, but...
23 Elo 7min
A Prayer When You Are Desperate
The woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5 lived in a desperate place for twelve years: physically weak, socially ostracized, considered unclean by everyone around her. And yet she never gave in to h...
22 Elo 7min
A Prayer to Have Hope When You Are Job Searching
Job searching is one of the most demoralizing experiences a person can walk through. Months of applications, qualified on paper, doing everything right, and still no interviews, no callbacks, no open ...
21 Elo 6min
A Prayer When You Don’t Really Get a Vote
Being passed over, dismissed, or disregarded, especially when you are the one with experience, expertise, or a genuine stake in the outcome, is one of the most frustrating experiences in human life. A...
20 Elo 7min
A Prayer for Faith Like Caleb to Climb Your New Mountain
Every new challenge has a way of looking like a mountain — too steep, too large, too dangerous to imagine actually reaching the top of. A broken relationship, a health crisis, a stressful work situati...
19 Elo 7min
A Prayer When Your Adult Child No Longer Wants a Relationship with You
The grief of being estranged from an adult child is in a category of its own. It does not arrive with a funeral or a clear moment of loss. It accumulates in empty birthdays, quiet holidays, and the ab...
18 Elo 8min
