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Letters to and from God

This is me. This is how I pray. It’s how I prayed for two years, actually. Scurrying to the secret place and writing longhand every morning through intense soul-pain, repressed emotions, and life changes, tears of rage and gratitude dried in the margins. I stopped last December after a major revelation brought closure to issues …

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When we don't know what to pray, the Holy Spirit rises up in us.
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Hum if you don’t know the words

What do you do when the words don’t come? When your heart is burdened and breaking and you close your eyes to pray but nothing comes out?⁣ What then?⁣ Anything.⁣ Scream.⁣Cry.⁣Babble.⁣Laugh.⁣Breathe.⁣ Sing.⁣Dance.⁣Build.⁣Paint.⁣Write.⁣ Prayer isn’t about the words you say just like worship isn’t about carrying a tune. Your entire life can be worship; your entire …

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“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?” ― C.S. Lewis⁣
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I need an adult

As the news escalates, a previously-rare thought is surfacing more: I don’t want to be the grownup. ⁣ I don’t know what I’m doing!⁣ I don’t know if it’s time to wear masks to the store or for my husband to shower when he gets home. I don’t know how to explain that the mall, …

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The peace of God
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Peace beyond peace

There’s a peace that goes beyond peace. One more universal than doves and olive branches.One more profound than pre-dawn silence.One more complete than your boxed set of Friends. It’s the peace that existed in Eden,that gave Abraham his strength,that steadied Jesus in Gethsemane. Not the peace of this world, the Roman “pax.”A peace so other …

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Selah
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A coronavirus selah

Ontario is officially holding in place for the next two weeks, and the news coming from places already doing so has made people twitchy here. Specters of instability, claustrophobia, boredom, and scarcity are sending ripples of fear through the collective unconscious. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Spending time in social isolation—for the …

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