Tag: prayer
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Waking Up & Lighting Your Own Way: How Creating Space for Advent Allows God to Nurture You
I am sitting by candle light in the early morning hours while I write. This isn’t typical, but I needed to get some words written before the household began stirring, and I needed something to off-set the glow of the computer screen. Now that it’s flickering in the corner of the living room, I realize…
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A Prayer for Our Children
A Prayer for Our Children Lord, you love our children so much. Thank you for gifting me with them. They are precious in every way. Please help me understand them and lead and guide them in the best way. Let me be a blessing to them and not a burden. Open my eyes and my…
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A Prayer for Selflessness
O Lord, cleanse my service of all selfishness, spiritual or material, all criticisms or impatience, all secret desire for consolation, recognition or reward. May I love those you have given me, to the end, for you and in your way. May I give and go on giving. May I bear and go on bearing. Take…
Amy Secrist 