A Prayer for Patience
I was always told patience is a virtue for which you should never, ever pray. “Don’t you dare start praying for patience,” the old church ladies would preach from beneath tightly wound hair-buns. “God will give it to you and Lord knows you do not want the sort of lessons that lead to patience. No, no, no, no! Never pray for patience! Don’t you ever, ever do it! You hear?!?” Read More »
Dear God Prayers
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes and fears through prayer. The personal prayers submitted to Dear God span the wide spectrum of human emotion and passion. The photography and graphic images are fantastic too!
Giving Thanks in Times of Deep Contentment
Contentment is not a relinquishing of the natural drive we all have to succeed in life and/or career. In other words, contentment is not about becoming lazy, slothful, or dormant; it is not about being underachieving slackers who fool themselves into believing that being so is actually righteous and peaceful. No! Contentment is not about killing future hopes and dreams; it’s not about being complacent about the important things in life either. Contentment is about embracing the present moment we all actually live in. It’s about embracing the people, places, and good things we have been given right now. In fact, we cannot move into our future’s creativity and dreams until we authentically embrace our present.
We all have much in life that we still want to experience and accomplish. That is a good thing! We all have dreams and desires that span everything from school, marriage, and vocation. Those are good things too. Read More »
What is Prayer?
“Prayer is a bulletin board where I post memos to the Almighty. It is not a chess game where I negotiate to get God to see or do things my way. He knows how it looks through my eyes. He knows how to manage a universe. Prayer isn’t a way to see things like he does. It’s a refuge.”
Ragamuffin Prayers
A Prayer for Those of Us Who Miss The Point
“Jesus save us from missing the point. Save us from our self-absorbed commodified version of you and your good news. Let our songs to and about you inspire us to act in the way you acted while here on earth. After all isn’t that what a follower of Christ is supposed to do?”
Chris Flinchbaugh
A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Times of Thanksgiving
This prayer is a prayer for small groups seeking intentional times of collective thanksgiving. It is meant to be read in unison, by all present in the group. Let all partaking in this thanksgiving prayer agree: family, community, and God are blessings with which none of us could live very long without. Praise God! Read More »
The Prayer of Faith and Prayers of Faithful Ones
