I love the imagery of this verse, where prayers rise to heaven like incense. Many eastern religions use incense in their worship and rituals. Incense isn’t in a rush to go anywhere… It slowly weaves its way heavenward, spreading and touching many on its way. It sweetens as it goes. Read more…
I love that the Old Testament has an entire book of prayer… The Psalms. I chose this psalm today because 1) I feel it has some overtones common to single life, and 2) it wraps up beautifully by acknowledging how bountifully The Lord has blessed us. As a single person Read more…
Prayer is a much about answers as it is about the act of praying. This scripture seemed fitting, because so often the answer phase of prayer requires us to wait on The Lord. I’m single and 27, still waiting for the blessing of marriage. I have friends my same age Read more…
Lots of prayer thoughts today… in the chapel at the temple the first two songs were “Did you think to pray” and “Secret Prayer.” While there I also had time to talk to God in prayer. Can I be really honest? I’m still working on the hearing and understanding the Read more…
I’m sure you don’t really care to hear it (yet again this week), but I am so tired!! I put in almost 50 hours at work this week. Ridiculous. And my sleep has definitely suffered. But I have stuck with this blog project and prayer project, despite it keeping me Read more…
Be faithful, praying always, with trimmed lamps. Again,I am somewhat surprised at how direct a single verse can be in providing direction and insight. Knowing the broad arc of the scriptures is very useful, but I think I was missing something before I learned the power of a single verse. Read more…
These verses have arguably nothing to do with prayer. However, they are frequent comfort verses for me, and reflect the feelings I can get from prayer. Several years ago, my friend Rachel set these two verses to music. I still wish I had a recording of it, but the memory Read more…
I don’t want to mope or whine or relive the past. Truly. If you want to know more, well…. You will understand. Valentines Day 2012. Enough said? I didn’t think it would be hard this year. Most of the emotional hurt from him is completely gone. But given today and Read more…
My first thought of what to use as my prayer prompt was a website I came across: Sacred Spaces. At a glance, it is a website that provides users with the experience I’ve created for myself – daily scripture prompts, finding how to make prayer meaningful in your life, developing a Read more…
One of the biggest changes I’ve noticed during the past few days of this project is that I think sour prayer and scriptures more often, with more purpose. Today as I drove to work, I learned that the Pope is resigning… Something that hasn’t happened since the 15th century or Read more…