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The art of intercession is beyond our traditional concept of prayer. It calls us into a deep and profound comprehension of a sacrificial way
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The art of intercession is beyond our traditional concept of prayer. It calls us into a deep and profound comprehension of a sacrificial way
Pray These Five Powerful Psalms When Your Words Fail.
Five Psalms to Pray When You Can’t Find Words E.M. Bounds, one of the great writers on prayer, believed that prayer was not merely something we do — it is something that does something to us. He wrote that prayer is not a habit to be maintained but a force that reaches into the deepest places of the soul. He understood that the greatest barrier to prayer is often not unwillingness, but…
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My father moved patiently cupping his hands beneath his chin, kneeling on a janamaz then pressing his forehead to a circle of Karbala clay. Occasionally he'd glance over at my clumsy mirroring, my too-big Packers T-shirt and pebble-red shorts, and smile a little, despite himself. Bending there with his whole form marbled in light, he looked like a photograph of a famous ghost. I ached to be so beautiful. I hardly knew anything yet— not the boiling point of water or the capital of Iran, not the five pillars of Islam or the Verse of the Sword— I knew only that I wanted to be like him, that twilit stripe of father mesmerizing as the bluewhite Iznik tile hanging in our kitchen, worshipped as the long faultless tongue of God.
Kaveh Akbar, "Learning to Pray," from Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Oh God, Make Me a Better Prayer
Sunday Afternoon Musings How I need this word and how I need to believe it and live it and trust it! “To pray is the greatest thing we can do: and to do it well there must be calmness, time, and deliberation; otherwise it is degraded into the littlest and meanest of things. True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least.” Bounds, E. M.. Complete Works of E. M. Bounds…
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Lent: Holy Saturday Lord Teach Me to Pray/Give Yourself to God
Holy Saturday: Un-Prayer/Silent Prayerhttps://katyandtheword.com/2023/04/08/prayer-for-holy-saturday/ Prayer Activity: Create a Black Out Prayer Similar to Black out Poetry https://writers.com/what-is-blackout-poetry-examples-and-inspiration, Step by Step instructions https://arapahoelibraries.org/blogs/post/how-to-blackout-poetry/ Taize Option: Wait for the Lord
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Maundy Thursday: Lord Teach Me to Pray/Give Yourself Up to God
Maundy Thursday: Servant PrayerJohn 13:1-17Mark 10:13-15 Breath Prayer Inhale: Lord teach me to serveExhale: Amen, Amen Ritual Washing of Hands/Feet Celebrate Communion Pray the Lord’s Prayer: Have Different People read different versions before you read it together Lord’s Prayer, from the original Aramaic Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the CosmosO Birther! Father- Mother…
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Lent 5, Lord Teach Me to Pray
Lent 5 Prayers of the People & Joy God plants and tends joy as a space of sanctuary in our lives—it is not a feeling of happiness, but rather a place of safety and Sabbath to visit when you are happy or sad. It is the space that allow us to celebrate with others, even when we are in a different place in our own lives. Psalm 97 or Psalm 122Mark 4:30-34 Breath Prayer Inhale: God be with…
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