prayer – Page 13 – 300 words a day

If it may please you.

Yesterday morning I sent a sentence from the Bible to a friend. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. It’s from Psalm 19. a prayer that David wrote out. I sent it to someone who was speaking somewhere […]

by Jon Swanson

Good morning!

It’s good to see you. Grab your coffee. Pull up a chair. Now, go ahead. Pray. What? You know, pray. Um, what do you mean? It’s first thing in the morning. If you want to be spiritual, you are supposed to pray. So pray. Can I point something out to you? I mean, without making […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes you talk for an audience.

Nancy and I talk quite a bit. We walk and talk. We text. We tweet. We email. Sometimes, when we are out for supper, we probably look like the couples who never talk. We eat. We listen. We look sideways at the people who are talking loudly at adjacent tables. We feel no need to […]

by Jon Swanson

if i could sit with you.

If I could sit with you, I would tell you that sometimes we can hear God talking and sometimes we can’t. I would tell you that when we hear him talking, you don’t actually hear anything with your ears. I would tell you that you hear it anyway, that is probably isn’t an essay, it’s […]

by Paul Merrill

Prayer. Again.

(Paul Merrill writes here every First Friday) I constantly seem to forget how important and real prayer is. A few months back, I wrote about a friend who was facing foreclosure because he had not received a paycheck in over a year. I prayed with him for several months. God brought a job! Another friend […]