God Still Hears When You Pray Like a Child
We all gathered around the kitchen before breakfast. “Time to say the prayer,” I told the little people around me. With shouts of “I will!”…
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Dear Lord When I Wander, Recenter My Focus
At a local coffee shop on a recent Saturday morning, I sat at a round table cradling a coffee mug and gabbing with friends. The café buzzed with…
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An Open Letter to the Anxious Christian
“Lord, help my unbelief.” I pray this at least 500 times a day. Sometimes more. Living with the struggles of simply being a human in a…
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When You Don’t Know What to Pray, God Still Hears
Do you ever find yourself having difficulty praying? Sometimes, I find myself saying my rote prayer to cover all my bases, but if I really sit down…
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Why Doesn’t God Heal My Depression?
When I first experienced depression, I didn’t understand what was going on. I knew I was sad, but I didn’t know why. I was pregnant with…
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You Carry Your Children’s Burdens—But Who’s Carrying Yours?
I was talking to my sister the other day, and she told me her teenage daughters (the two older of her four children) had both been crying the…
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Ask Him Again
I know, I know, you’ve already asked Him a million times, I see those eyes rolling. But today, ask Him a million and one. Yes. Ask Him AGAIN. Ask…
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Lord, Just Get Me Through This Storm
I found myself driving alone, in the middle of a place I knew nothing about, with the wind and rain beating against me, and the low hanging dark…
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Praying With My Daughter Grew Both of Our Faiths
One of my longtime favorite places to pray has been in the car. Those rare and stolen moments of solitude as a mother are somehow the safest and…
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Love Notes From My Mother in Heaven
Twelve years have passed since my mother exclaimed, “I’ve died and gone to Heaven!” as she leaned back in her big donut-shaped tube and…
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