prayer – Page 14 – 300 words a day

Sometimes you just sit and listen.

My boss was very active. He handed me lots of things to work on, lots of projects to research. And I enjoyed it. It was stretching. It was fun. We were sitting in his office one afternoon, talking. I already had a long list of next steps in front of me. I was ready to […]

by Jon Swanson

You mean I haven’t talked about that before?

I really wasn’t planning to plunge into a series on prayer. Next week I’m teaching about prayer at a denominational conference. To help me think, I went to the group I teach on Sunday mornings and began exploring this question: What does it mean that so many people end prayers with some version of “In […]

by Jon Swanson

Two chairs, leaning together

My parents have two chairs in the living room. One is Dad’s. One is Mom’s. It is impossible to walk into the condo and find them both just sitting. Sometimes, however, if you are around the house enough, if you are part of the family, she sits down. And then you find the two of […]

by Jon Swanson

Divine eavesdropping

“What can Andrew and I do today? The zoo costs too much.” It was the most delightful text I have read in a long time. The thought of Hope and Andrew, brother and sister, trying to figure out what to do for part of an afternoon made me smile. Andrew needed extra credit. Somehow, going […]

by Jon Swanson

How was your day?

Recently, I talked to a young woman about God. Among other things, we talked about talking to God. At times, she said, she felt like she was talking to air. How would you talk differently if you could see him, I asked. “I’d ask how his day was,” she blurted out. When we talk with […]