The Power of Poetic Prayers
Several years ago, I felt the floor beneath my feet give way. Over the course of a few months, my family (my wife and three children) experienced a series of…
The Heaviest Thing I Have Ever Carried
Lately, I have felt continually burdened. You might have even prayed for me or seen me in my misery and not known what to pray. I have been in cancerland…
The Risk of Uncertainty
It is remarkably more safe, I think, to not pray than to pray. When I was in my early 20s, my brother called me urgently from his college to tell…
My Seven-Word Prayer
When I was a kid, I ended every day with the same prayer. It wasn’t a prayer taught in Sunday School or one discussed in a sermon. I made it…
Making Peace with Unanswered Prayer
I felt my watch buzz and glanced down at the notification: Your heart has been elevated over 120 beats per minute for over 10 minutes and you don’t appear to…