Prayer
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moreWhat Gosnell and the Gospel Mean to the Brave …
On Tuesday, April 16 th, 2013Dear Son, So your GPS can say that it’s about 5 hours and 24 minutes from Steubenville to Gosnell’s clinic in Philadelphia? But you’d be about right if you said Gosnell and Steubenville were right around the corner from one another. And you were about right when you said that Gosnell is as much about us as Steubenville ever was. ...
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moreThe Sister Promise: What We make to Our Sisters *Updated with Video
On Friday, February 08 th, 2013It was after the brownies, when I’m dabbing up the calorie crumbs, that she just spills this confession like the folds of some priestly robes. She says she’s damaged him. As if you can throw a kid a glare that punches him in the gut so hard you chip off a bit of his fragile soul. Ask me how I know. ...
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moreBest Way to Get Through Hard Times
On Friday, January 18 th, 2013It’s what I sang over dishes. Sang on the days when I felt too weary to take another step, clean up another mess, change another diaper. Keep singing when I need to keep going on. It’s what I sing when the enemy attacks with lies, when I feel alone and scared,...
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moreHow to Not Miss Your Real Life Calling
On Friday, November 16 th, 2012When they cut the three right open and start pulling out the inner guts, there isn’t a sound in the room. They’re focused and silent and pulling at strings and ripping away at things and I wonder if I am doing any of this ridiculous thing right? Not the pumpkins — I could care less how we hack these three up. It’s the kids, this year, my life. ...
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morea prayer for a daughter
On Friday, August 24 th, 2012Father who breathed into this daughter… I pray for this girl being formed into eternity…. May the wind always be in her hair May the sky always be wide with hope above her And may all the hills be an exhilaration the trials but a trail, all the stones but stairs to God. God, clothe this girl ...
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moreWhen All Hope Feels Like a Drought
On Wednesday, July 25 th, 2012Aman can watch the sky like a plea. “And we didn’t get nothing — not one drop.” That’s what the farmer’s wife said to me before breakfast. How she headed home from town in a flat-out gully washer of a rain, thinking this was finally it — the whole dark sky like the ocean coming to fi...
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moreWhen You Need an Answer to Prayers
On Friday, July 20 th, 2012A s she swings higher at twilight, there is only quietness. Only all these quiet prayers with the sun on the nape. And the prayers, they are doing something, and it can be felt in the bones. Prayer isn’t merely talking to God — it is being transformed by God. Prayer is this moving towards God, heat of a holy fire...
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moreHow to Pray {Friday on the Farm}
On Friday, June 22 nd, 2012She prayed and she worked and the prayers were the work that would outlast fire. And that is what she thought, there at the window with the cloth in her hand. Pray ...
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morewhen you are feeling overwhelmed…
On Friday, June 15 th, 2012When a sparrow gets caught behind the couch, it’s the light at the other end, behind the poor thing, that we keep trying to turn that one pounding heart towards. Because the thing is and don’t I know it: If you’re turned the wrong way, you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. So I’m kneeled on the floor in front of a poun...
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moreA Prayer for the Broken Hearted
On Thursday, May 31 st, 2012The best way to tend to your open wounds is to open your arms. Out-loving is the only ointment that healed anything. : : We’re over here today…
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moreHow to Pray and The Best Way to Work {Friday on the Farm}
On Friday, May 18 th, 2012A life could really be full of all the best things: Worried-full for nothing, thank-full for everything, prayer-full in all things. When all 8 of ...
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moreA Prayer for When You’re on the Edge: ‘grant me grace to fall into His arms’
On Tuesday, April 24 th, 2012To be read, prayed, slowly… ‘O God, I bless thee for the happy moment when I first saw thy law fulfilled in Christ, wrath appeased, death destroyed, sin forgiven, my soul saved…. I want no other rock to build upon than that I have, desire no other hope than that of gospel truth, need no other look than that which gazes on the cross...
