The new year had begun and we were back from holidays. My oldest was in school again and my youngest was adjusting to his resolution…
View More Prayer’s End: When our Longings are SatisfiedCategory: Friday Devotionals
Prayer’s Middle: Living in Longing
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 LongingPrayer 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 ImmanuelHow Long, O Lord?
Years ago, someone said that we were living in the “instant era.” Meals that used to take hours to prepare, could now take minutes. Baked…
View More How Long, O Lord?Prayer’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 DesperationPrayer for the Pastor’s Wife
Heavenly Father, You know the unique role that each pastor’s wife plays as she serves with her husband in ministering to Your church. You know…
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