Do Not Pray For Easy Lives
Stumbled upon a book/pamphlet at the library book sale called Duty by the famous Episcopalian Bishop Phillips Brooks. It includes this quote which I thought worth passing along:
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then [...]
An Easter Prayer
I hope all of you are having a Blessed and Happy Easter!
I wanted to share this wonderful prayer I heard at this morning’s service by our associate pastor Amy Aspey:
Just like your disciples long ago, we peer into the tombs of our hearts. So many things fill our inner tombs-broken relationships, failed attempts at [...]
Praying Beyond Words
Tony Woodlief on his time at St. Fidelis:
I prayed in that shadowed chapel until there were no words. I prayed beyond the words, into the silence. The silence is what we fear, the silence when the presence of God can neither be denied nor deflected with vain prayers and empty mumblings. I wept into that silence. [...]
Wrap ourselves in prayer
Food for thought from Paul Simon’s Wartime Prayers
Times are hard, it’s a hard time
But everybody knows all about hard times.
The thing is, what are you gonna do?
Well, you cry and try to muscle through
Try to rearrange your stuff
But when the wounds are deep enough,
It’s all that we can bear,
We wrap ourselves in prayer.
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