Prayables Story: Your Three Names
The ancient sages taught that a person has at least three names during a lifetime. The name you parents gave you. Parents choose names for a variety of reasons. They may name you after a special relative or they may simply choose a name they … [Read more...]
Story: Lord, I have Time
by Michael Quoist I went out, Lord. Men were coming and going, walking and running. Everything was rushing: cars, trucks, the street, and the whole town. Men were rushing not to waste time. They were rushing after time, to gain … [Read more...]
Prayables Story: Thankful Every Morning
The 92 year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of … [Read more...]
Prayables Story: Elephants in Prayer
Deena Metzger studied elephants. Elephants have enormous intelligence, an ability to communicate across vast distances, and a complexity of their kinship networks and mourning rituals that is hard to fathom. Deena Metzger wanted to hold council … [Read more...]
Prayables Story: Praise God
An ancient sage once said that one is not allowed to praise God’s greatness, because all the adjectives you would use to describe God’s greatness and kindness, dwarf in comparison to His true greatness and kindness. Therefore rather than ‘insulting’ … [Read more...]
Prayables Story: Experiencing a Passover Miracle
In the time of communism in the former Soviet Union, the citizens were not allowed to practice their religion. Most folks went about their secular ways, knowing that they would be arrested if they celebrated a religious holiday, or observed religious … [Read more...]
Bible Story: Complacency and Doubt
By Rabbi Evan Moffic, brought to you by Prayables Do you ever hesitate before you make a big decision? Maybe you've already decided what you're going to do. But just as you get ready to do it, you get a pang of doubt. It happens to all of us. … [Read more...]
Prayables Story: Trusting
Prayables Story: Dad’s Guardian Angel
If Nema Semnani hadn’t been in Maryland for a work trip, and if a friend hadn’t canceled their dinner plan, he never would have found himself getting a haircut at a shopping center in Owings Mills outside of Baltimore on a rainy Friday evening in … [Read more...]