A Prayer to Put First Things First

Choosing a word for the year is a practice many people embrace at the start of January, and one year the word chosen was peace — not because peace felt abundant, but because it felt so elusive. When the normal soundtrack of life is stress, depression, anxiety, and emptiness cycli ... Show More

There are two primary reasons we fail to grow in our understanding of God: pride and deceit. And the almost immediate internal response to reading that — "no, I don't think that's true of me" — is itself the clearest possible proof that both are present. It is the kind of honest, ... Show More

Sometimes discouragement arrives with a long list of justifications. And sometimes it settles in for no obvious reason at all, quietly smothering the smiles that should be there, draining the joy that ought to fuel the day. Either way, the result is the same: days wasted without ... Show More

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