Prayables

Prayers, Blessings, Inspirational Quotes & more

Story: Living Socially

By Susan Diamond We've all heard the stories about saucy senior citizens, carrying on in senior living communities all over the world. We're surprised and then amused. "That's adorable - old folks with lovers!" And then…you get your own AARP … [Read more...]

Story: Baby Camel

A mother and a baby camel were having a talk. The baby camel asked, “Why do camels have humps?” The mother camel considered this and said, “We are desert animals so we have the humps to store water so we can survive with very little water.” The baby … [Read more...]

Story: In a Land Far Away

It was a time when vividly colored dragons and beautiful fairy princesses occupied the land. Good kings ruled their subjects fairly and evil was always soundly defeated. Little boys had their beanstalks, and geese laid golden eggs. Poverty was … [Read more...]

Story: Easter’s Lesson

It was a year when Easter Sunday fell on the first night of Passover. Charlie was trying to figure out a good way to meld the two holidays together. The Silverman-Clarke family is a mixed-faith family, and the kids had reached the age where they were … [Read more...]

Blog: Call Us Higher

By Susan Diamond I did something unethical today. I did something nice too, but it’s the lying and deceit that’s nagging at my conscience. I’ll start with the good deed. I’m standing in line on an unseasonably cold Sunday in the freezing … [Read more...]

Story: Shoulder to Cry On

My mother used to ask me, “What is the most important part of the body?”Through the years, I would take a guess at what I thought was the correctanswer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us ashumans, so I said, "My ears, … [Read more...]

Story: Precious Baby

Picture her. She’s one month past her second birthday. Strong little legs carrying her to and from every corner of her world. She’s curious and her forehead crinkles when a thought pops in her curly-haired head. Why? She points. Why? Why? Why, Why … [Read more...]

Story: The Country Club Set

You might be one who would dismiss the country club set as people who are shallow, privileged and snobby. As usual with broad generalizations you’d be partially right and mostly wrong. A country club is typically a place centered around a golf … [Read more...]

Story: Newly Reunited

She is just a little girl. Thirteen years old but nine inside, like a lot of middle schoolers. Experimenting with makeup, being flirted with but never actively flirting to the boys in her class. Insecure yet wearing a cocky attitude. That’s … [Read more...]