The Lord Is My Shepherd
I am starting to see there is a difference between “saying prayers” and honest praying. Both can sound the same on the outside, but the former is too often motivated by a sense of obligation and guilt; whereas the latter is motivated by a conviction that I am completely helpless to “do life” on my own. Or in the case of praying for others, that I
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What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
It’s hard to find your reflection in a wave. But with a small stream you can find it quite quickly.
Clarity follows stillness
This thought came as I was reflecting on how He leads me beside still waters...it's up to me drink.
“It’s hard to find your reflection in a wave.”
When life is noisy, stormy, restless — when we’re rushing, striving,
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