Prayer for Love

Dear Heavenly Father, I hear the words of you Son echo in my ears, “Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!” But I confess that I am finding it difficult to love and pray for my family and friends let alone my enemies. I acknowledge that even...

Prayer for Humility

Dear Holy Father, I confess my pride to you. There are areas in my life that I am desperately trying to solve on my own. I am ashamed to ask you for help, but your word reminds me that, ‘Those who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy, no shadow of shame...

Prayer for Tranquility

Father, I confess that I am angry. All I can see are the imperfections of other drivers, of the road, and of the rules and their lack of enforcement. My own imperfections mock me, so loudly that I turn up the music in an effort to drown out the condemning voices in my...

Speaking in a Langauge They Understand

Since I have begun working in KidCity, I have been trying to find different ways to convey Bible stories to the kids. There have been puppet shows, movies, shadow plays, plays with the kids, etc. Recently, I had been struggling find new ways to tell The Story, but...

Part of Something Larger

I am forming a guild for artists. For the last three years, I have been struggling to write. It wasn’t until I was surrounded by a small community of other artists, that writing became less of a struggle and more a way of life. Within this community we are...

Free to eat spaghetti squash

Tonight, my wife and I are making stir fry with spaghetti squash instead of spaghetti noodles. Why? Because we have decided to weed out carbohydrates from our meals. A couple years ago, our reasoning would have been based in guilt. “We aren’t happy with our bodies.”...