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Food, Friends, and Fulfillment: The Secret Sauce
Food, Friends, and Fulfillment: The Secret Sauce I’m searching for the secret sauce. Like a great chef— I’m trying to find the recipe that will keep my guests coming back for more. I thought about it again last...
A Jewish Girl’s Guide to Choosing a Church
A Jewish Girl’s Guide to Choosing a Church A Jew walks into a church. …sounds like an opening line to a joke, but it’s not; I decided to go to church on Sunday. They call me Chief of Pray, I’m the founder of Prayables.com, a multi-faith prayer community for women. Every once in a while, I test my theory and go offline to pray with people from different religions. Choosing a church to attend was my first task....
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick Help me be the wise woman,the woman who builds her homebrick by brick, memory by memory.Help me to realize when I am tearing downthese carefully constructed wallswith harsh words or harmful habits.With Your help,I can love myself as You love me.With Your help,I can look at my mistakes
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...
How to Pass the Chuckle Test
How to Pass the Chuckle Test I needed a sure-fire way to keep me from ruining my son’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.
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
Help of God
With the Help of God My niece's baptism is this weekend, and for a Lutheran, that is a very big deal. In the faith of my family, baptism is the sacrament through which God enters our hearts and binds Himself to us. Although I know God has been with Rylie all this time anyway, baptism is considered the dawn of her spiritual life and the birth of her faith.
Raising the Bar
Raising the Bar Today is the day of absolute abandon.Blessings beyond belief.New perspectives. Ancient traditions.Friends I haven't met yet.Listening deeply. Feeling fully.This is the day I say yes to everything.Life, love, risk, being in the moment.Surround me with the sound of church bells,voices chanting, and children...
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...
Our Connection
Our Connection I grew up with prayeras a quiet quick few seconds before bed,but that's no longer enough.Adoration,praise,supplication,and pleas for intervention.They may not have been part of my past,but maybe they will be part of our future,Your's and mine, together.
Blessed Day
Blessed Day The sun’s broken lightthrough dusty painted cloudsmoves me from instinct to prayer.I bathe in the cuff of morning praise,like a butterfly plotting its path of nectarin the summer mist.The windblown chimesecho the song of Your river.I listen for the thread of heart-string,instead hear a symphony of...
Prayer Beads and Me
Prayer Beads and Me Crisis. Crisis. Crisis. That pretty much sums up the past week. Blessedly, they weren't technically my crises, but you know how it goes. Trying to convince the bill collector that, while Kelly's nonpayment is an issue, you are not Kelly . . . let's just call it fruitless and leave it at that. I really needed some...
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?
