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A Prayer While Weeping
This past Sunday, I started crying and for some phrases could only mouth the words of the song “Oh, How He Loves You and Me” during a worship assembly. That song was the lullaby that I sang to my middle … Continue reading
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Tagged christianity, faith, love, meditation, Prayer, Psalms, Spiritual Formation, worship
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Prayer to God who Saves “Man and Beast”
The words of the prayer in Psalm 36:5-6 convict me as they should any who realize their weaknesses and their inadequacy as they seek to please our Creator. The prayer envisions God as judge, but also as redeemer and savior. … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation, environment, God, justice, love, omnipresence of God, Prayer, religion, salvation, spirituality
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Praying with Desperate Repentance
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!” (Psalm 130:1-2) That prayer of desperation begins a song sung by pilgrims … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, desperation, Exodus 34:6, fear, forgiveness, grace, hesed, John Donne, love, mercy, poetry, Prayer, Psalm 130, Psalms, Psalms of Ascent, religion, repentance, reverence, Spiritual Formation, spiritual security, spirituality, steadfast love
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Reflecting on the Anniversary of My Son’s Death
I’ve reflected today on Psalm 90. While today is recognized in the United States this year as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21 in 2019 is the fourth anniversary of a day that began with a telephone call informing … Continue reading
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Tagged a severe mercy, adoption, christianity, death, grief, grief recovery, Lament, love, mourning, pain, Psalm 90, Psalms, renewal, sorrow, Spiritual Formation, spiritual warfare, spirituality, vale of soul-making
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A Prayer When We Are Running Away from God
Hosea’s wife did not respond to his love. She left him for a life of prostitution. But then as Hosea chapter 3 begins, God calls Hosea to go love his wife as God loves his people. When Hosea finally found … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Peter 2:10, Christ, christianity, forgiveness, God, Hosea, Israel, love, Prayer, pursuit, relationships, religion, spirituality
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A Prayer of Gratitude for My Father
Today would have been my Dad’s birthday. He would have been 86 years old. I always believed firmly that he would live at least into his nineties, so on this date each year I feel as if someone and something … Continue reading
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Tagged children, christianity, faith, family, grief, life, love, ministry, parenting, relationships, spirituality
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A Prayer for God’s Steadfast Love
“Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise, then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word” (Psalm 119:41 ESV). The twenty-two sections of the … Continue reading
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Tagged christianity, courage, Exodus 34:6-7, faith, God, hesed, love, obedience, Prayer, Psalm 119:41-48, religion
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