[Prayer Spark: Thanksgiving. I prayed this at Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church’s Thanksgiving Day 2013 service. Putting up a couple days late….you know, the holidays.] God, we thank you. We thank you for every last blessing you pour into our lives. We thank you for the blessings we take for granted: for freedom to worship, for […]
Archives for November 2013
A Prayer for Those For Whom “It Coulda Been Worse”
[Prayer Spark: Illinois tornado victims] So God, I’ve gotten lazy again. Not chatting with you much beyond my daily repetition of three Lord’s Prayers or the prayers with my kids on the drive to school or the ones I shoot up, randomly. Thanks for hearing all those. Thanks for being ready to hear me, to […]
A Prayer for School Kids
So God, You know that one of the many (many!) things I love about school and my kids being at school is that I get the chance to miss them. Without them here asking me to make them chai (God, this isn’t normal, right?) or asking for help with homework or to help get a toy out […]
A Lament for the Philippines
[Prayer Spark: The news…] God, for days, I’ve wanted to type this out. I wanted to ask you to help the people of the Philippines–to help?us?help them. But I’ve not had words. Only groans. You’ve heard those. But they’re harder to blog down. I suppose it’s because I’m mad at you–the God of the Wind, […]
A Prayer for the Weather-Beaten
[Prayer Spark: Reading about the Super Typhoon supposed to hit Philippines] God, Be with those in the Philippines who await “the biggest storm ever.” How terrifying: to do all you can to prepare, to hunker down or head out. To calm children, to pretend all will be well. For their sakes. I imagine the prayers […]
Prayer for Crusaders
[Prayer spark: Megan Fox’s (not that Megan Fox, as this Megan says) speaking out against public pornography viewing in libraries.] God, Today I pray for the crusaders–not, as you know, The Crusaders, neither the holy-grail seeking villains (though, please do have mercy on their souls) nor the sports teams with this name (though, be with them as well….). But for […]
