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Mind Games
Mind Games Trigger my mind to love. My thoughts will come alive.I will love everyoneand everything today.I am in control.I can make the decisionto love today.You have given me the gift of choice.No matter what I am going through,I will manifest the fruit of love.
Going Against Traffic: Culture Clash and a Two Way Street
Going Against Traffic: Culture Clash and a Two Way Street As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's...
The Reason
The Reason Prayer is a gift I give myself.I turn to You,because then I am not alone.I give You my troubles:You can bear them.I give You my thanks:You grant me all my needs.I give You my praise:You give me more to admire.I get more than I can ever give.And that is why I pray.
Rubber Meets Road
Rubber Meets Road Every day without fail,I tell my son: Always do the right thing.If you give your word, keep it.Sometimes he rolls his eyes,but I know it sinks in eventually.I look back at the fading forensics of those timesYou tried to reach me too.Rolling my eyes toward the heavens, I tuned You out.
Your Presence Requested
Your Presence Requested I know You're there,but where?Worries are poking at me,sharp-clawed:my job, my family, my life.I can't feel You today,and I am afraid.Where are You?
All in One
All in One When I’m weak, You are my strength.When I’m afraid, You are here.When I’m sad, You are my joy.When I’m in despair, You are my hope.When I’m alone, Your presence stays.When I stumble, You catch me.When I don’t understand, You are my Teacher.When others hurt, You are my Healer.
From the Inside to the Outside
From the Inside to the Outside Let me know Your will,Your hearts desire, and my own.Train me; prune me in the faith life,that I may bear fruit pleasing to You.Inside, show me how to love unconditionally,free to express Your wordsof comfort and tolerance.Let compassion overflow...
Everyday Heroes
Everyday Heroes There are two kinds of people; those who own up and those who don’t. Post-election remarks separate the real winners and losers.
Tribal Rhythm
Tribal Rhythm I have learned that belly dance is all about isolation. My teacher taught me this several weeks ago, explaining that the hypnotizing nature of the dance comes from the way the hips and the torso move independently. I have also learned that the act of learning belly dance is a sort of isolation.
Holding Hands
Holding Hands Into Your hands, I place my own.It belongs there, as natural as rain falling.I trust You to keep a tight grip,whatever the excursion brings.
Your Name
Your Name May I honor Your Name alwaysas a blessing on my lips. Your Name is not a weapon.It is neither a catalyst for anger,nor is it proof of my righteousness. Your Name is the hand of kindness,the voice of hope,the source of all possible joy. May I only speak itin reverence and in love.
Small World
Small World Every time I run into a friendI haven't seen in decades,she says, "small world."But in truth, it's really quite large.Big enough to accommodate small minds, shuttered hearts, and hurtful habits.Big enough for you, me,and even whole countries. Resurrect the faith we may have lost.Build us up againwhen we're...
Portion Control
Portion Control I would pay a lot of money for a little amount of caramel corn. I was cutting through the food court, when my nose took me past
Heart Opened
Heart Opened Open my heart, so I can see the truth around me.When I am shown anger,help me see the hurt that sparked it.When I am shown arrogance,help me see insecurity. When I am shown aggression, help me...
Day of Endless Failures
Day of Endless Failures I feel as if I have not doneone single thing right today.This day has been one failureafter another:failures at workfailures at homefailures with friends.
Response to Love
Response to Love You are the center of everything.You exist, I know. You’re there to keep me dreaming. You ask me to keep trustingin an infinite planthat will surely bring peace.So amid my sadness,among this doubt,to you, I say:You are e...
Faith Focused
Faith Focused Help me to build upon the faiththat you've grown in me,and to use it as an exampleand a testament to You.Teach me that I can overcome,or at least endure, through it all.
Open Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Pray Maker Lori Strawn and Alice discuss a quote from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Join the women of Prayables for a lively discussion of this quote including faith, knowledge and devotion to truth!
Saving Grace
Saving Grace Now that I’ve been the recipient of grace,please give me a gracious spirit.Remind me that I’m not omniscientand can’t know what life is like for anyone else.Put me on notice that I’m not a judge on a tribunalticking off each little sin and magnifying it.
Small Wonders
Small Wonders I praise You for the tiny gloriesI am often too busy to see:the irregular scallop of a maple leaf,the impossible yellow of a dandelion, the perfection of untrammeled snow. For the scrap of sunlight the cat findsin the darkened hallway,I thank You.
Buy This Book
Buy This Book (Please) Here’s what I’m proposing: This Christmas, buy a present for yourself. It’s not a blanket with sleeves. It won’t “clap on” or “clap off” anything. It’s a book, called
Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre It gets better.Stay in between my synapsestap it out in Morse codeif need be.It gets better.Take me outside to lookat the birds flying in unisontaste the salty air by the boundless oceanfeel the sand between clenched toes. It gets better.
Faith vs. Reason
Faith vs. Reason I'm here,You're there,and yet, we're together. I've been around the block, around the world.Somehow, You're everywhere I go. Make me mindful that life is not all or nothing.Embolden me as I fail forwardknowing that the only mistake would be not to try.
Encounters
Encounters I ask Your blessing upon all who enter my life today. May they feel Your love as they interact with me, hear Your love when I speakand leave my presence knowing they have been touched by Your love. Guide me to see, feel, and love the way You...
Wherever I May Roam
Wherever I May Roam In my mind, it's all settled:I'm surrounded by the ones I loveand the things that tickle me:my hazelnut candle, castanets,a turquoise feather boa.This might seem frivolous, but theselittle tchotchkes and thoughtsmake me feel at home.It doesn't matter where we plant our roots,just as long as our branchesreach...
This Garment
This Garment The one I love is on my mind. I carry You with me every day, like a shawl that covers me, or a stone in my pocket that I constantly reach forto make sure it's still there. But I worry so much about our future. It's unknown, like everyone's. It's riddled with...
On Track
On Track At times, I feel I’m the engineer on this train, and some days, just cargo. All I need to know is that I’m on the right track.Before I even began this journey, You’d mapped out the route.Each time we pull into a stop, I think my trip is over.Then the train starts up again, back out into the sun.
Faith in God
Faith in God A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says, "Get in, get in!" The religious man replies, " No I have faith in God. He will grant me a miracle." Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in God and God will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down...
Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf My faith is too delicateto even speak some days.It is a flower, a vase, a glassthat I fear doubt can break.But I shall not leave iton a shelf collecting dust. I shall not place it out of reach—something I see, but never use. So f...
Divine Moments
Divine Moments I feel You within me like never before.My trust in You has paid off.This is contentment.Splendid, astounding, worth every prayer,every heartache, sublime serenity.A solid finite companion, not by my side,
Free at Last!
Free at Last! I quit judging, fudging, procrastinating,gossiping, belittling;my personal pity party.I forgive my partner, my relatives,my friends, my workmates & boss;myself.I embrace kindness, empathy, benevolence,those who need me most;You. ...
Thy Will
Thy Will Not my will, but Thy will.I try to hold thisin my mind and my heartas I hold my worries up to You.Thy will may not mean a quick fixor the easy way out.It may take weeksto come together.But it is Your way,The Way,even when I cannot spy itthrough my nearsighted takeon the world;the world You lovingly holdin Your...
Fresh Day
Fresh Day The black of night still hoversas the morning trickles forth.Remind me to keep this dayfresh, reverent and holy.Remind me with my baby's gurgle,my old dog's swishing tail,the scent of coffee brewing,with the blessing of this unknown day.
What the Hummingbird Told Me
What the Hummingbird Told Me Just as a hummingbird can balance between the dying breezeand the uplifting beats of its wings,so too can You steady me amongstthe bleak feelings rising like dark bread inside me,and the bright thoughts of sunrisespilling over the lip of a new day.
Known
Known There is no part of meYou cannot see.You know my guilt, joy,my fear and my hope.Your knowledge of my secretsfrees me from the weight of them.Your knowledge of my soulbrings me closer to You.You know me completely,and still You love me completely.
With Me
With Me Here beside You, I am known. You have the words I cannot find. You know the truths I will not speak. You offer me peace I thought was out of reach. You are my warmest companion, my perfect joy.
Sensing Grace
Sensing Grace I finally sense the gracethat is at my grasp every day.It is here.When it's frigid,when it's bleak,when I'm joyous.It is here. When health suffers,when loved ones pass,when I'm grateful.It is here.
Perfect
Perfect Unbelievable. Unattainable.My quick, loud words and selfish fearmake perfection seem as possibleas pigs in flight.Yet You are perfect,and in You, I feel what might beif only I could get closer.I will spend my life working for this.I see myself rocketing skyward,falling up like a freak of gravity.I may not ever be perfect,but my faith in You
Coal into Diamond
Coal into Diamond It takes years of pressure to turn a piece of coalinto a sparkling diamond.Thank You for second chances, and open hearts.Allow me a chance to grow in faith.Surround me with light and hope as we walk into the future...
Ritual
Ritual I clear the space that surrounds us.I set aside the clutter of my dayso the chaos does not obstruct my view of You. I clear myself.I breathe out the weight of my egoso my heart is opened to you. I open my eyes.I find you at my side,waiting for my frantic mindto settle finally on You.
Finding Home
Finding Home I wish for a housewith many roomsto hold all my prayersfor you, my friend.Happiness will sleepin the still places:in cups of tea, picture framesand the smell of hopethat wraps around walls.
Claiming My Personal Power
Claiming My Personal Power I offer to you all that I am not,to create with it all that I am.Send Your forces around me, through me.Permeate me.Gently, yet boldly.Undeniably.With honor, I forgo all past violations of myself.Through darkness I've crawledjust to meet you here.All the sacrifice...
Bathroom Prayer
Bathroom Prayer It started out innocently enough, a question about prayer from our Prayables Facebook page. “Where’s the strangest place you pray?” It was our biggest flurry of comments so far. And the winner is… the bathroom! Not a big surprise to me. In this era of multi-tasking and luxurious bathrooms, it stands to reason that the place to pray is the place we...
Faith
Faith The other day I had a thought.The kind that weaves itselfinto your mind and takes hold.I realized that I amconstantly in fear.Afraid that I won't be able tomeet the needs of those I love,afraid that I'm not here for me.
Letting Go
Letting Go Surrender does notcome naturally to me.Surrender meansrelinquishing control;letting go.Surrender meanstrusting that someone elsewill do as good,will care as much,will want the same result that I do.Surrender also meansopening my life and my selfto the wondrous possibilitiesthat Your wisdomand Your...
Gazing Outward
Gazing Outward Whether we are reachingfor the last sale itemor helping someone in need,it is far too easyto get wrapped up in ourselves.We fail to see the other person,complete with their own needs,their own wants,their own fears.Please help me to turn my gazeto You so that I can look outward and upwardtoward something bigger than...
Family Complete
Family Complete I have already lost a baby. I have already lost holidays with a little one. I have lost peanut butter fingerprints in the kitchenand unidentifiable globs
One of Us
One of Us It's been years since we prayed together, years we could have grown apart but somehow didn't. I see Your hand in this. The same hand that formed us, loud and raucous,
Long Way Home
Long Way Home I heard the call many moons ago,but turned away to 'find myself.'Thank You for going to all this trouble,to sculpt me in skin and sinew,to wait patiently as I came back into the foldYou took me the long way home,so I could reach my own conclusions.Let me be all I can,and thank You with my life.Please, today and every day,be in...
