Life has beginnings and ends, some welcome and others hard to receive, but most of our living is in the middle. Most prayer is spent…
View More Prayer’s Middle: Living in LongingCategory: Friday Flowers
Prayer Guide for Our Children’s Future Spouses
(The following prayers are based on the ESV translation.) Praying for a daughter’s future husband: 1.Lord God, I pray that he would love You with…
View More Prayer Guide for Our Children’s Future SpousesPrayer Is for Us Too
The Lord shows us new things even as we get older. I’m learning new ways to pray, new depths of communion with the Lord, and…
View More Prayer Is for Us TooPraying for Our Children’s Future Spouses
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. Proverbs 31:10 One afternoon my husband came home from a lunch meeting…
View More Praying for Our Children’s Future SpousesGratitude: Our Anchor in the Waiting
When my middle son was born he had terrible colic. He would cry for up to six hours a day. It was awful. When I…
View More Gratitude: Our Anchor in the WaitingAtmosphere and Immanuel
Christmas is about atmosphere. We all have the atmosphere ingredients that stir us. Cinnamon scented pinecones, or the smell of a fresh tree. Christmas music,…
View More Atmosphere and ImmanuelPrayer’s Beginning: Born in Desperation
Our first winter snowfall in our central Canadian town was commencing. Only a few blocks into our afternoon walk, the tiny pellets of hail came…
View More Prayer’s Beginning: Born in DesperationLearning to Love Prayer Meetings
I don’t love prayer meetings. Am I allowed to say that? I’m married to a pastor. I love church. I love my church. I love…
View More Learning to Love Prayer MeetingsPrayer of Silence
Silence. It’s not something you hear much of these days. It seems that daily we fill our lives with constant noise and activity. Much of…
View More Prayer of SilenceCommuning With God in the Chaos of Life
I had good intentions. I really did. I was going to do just one more chore and then sit down to read my Bible and…
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