Prayables | in the weeds

Published: Mon, 02/22/21

Monday February 22, 2021

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Dear God, Help me put faith over fear, trust over worry, and love over anger. Praise to You, who guides my choices, and rewards me with peace.

Psalms 148:12-13 Praise Him, you young men and women, old people and children. God's name is great, God's glory is majesty.

What you're looking for is not out there, it's in you. May you be blessed with a self-awareness that brings you joy and satisfaction.

THANK YOU FOR THE BRICKS

By Hannah Brenchner

You're in the weeds. You're in the thick of it.

You live your life-- second by second-- so it's impossibly hard to take a moment to step back and survey what is right in front of you. The goodness. The things you are learning, even when it is hard. All the pieces of your life.

But maybe you should. Maybe you and I should step back more to see just how much we've been blessed and count it out loud.

Ann Voskamp writes, “Gratefulness isn’t hard. Forgetting to be grateful is what makes life hard.”

Now I'm not a gratitude expert but I have been practicing long enough to tell you that gratitude multiplies. The more you say “thank you" for the little things, the more you find things to be thankful for.

I honestly believe God knows this about the practice gratitude and that is why the idea of “thanksgiving” is scrawled all over the Bible.

Because thanksgiving is a gift for us. It causes explosions in our own hearts. It is our eyes that begin to shift and our plates that begin to become more full when we...read more

HEALING AND COMFORT

I pray for divine healing. From December I was diagnosed with Gastroenteritis whilst I have gotten great relief. I have constant internal burning sensations, I feel weak at times and do not weak at times. Worry takes over sometimes, disturbs my sleeping pattern and I know this stir up the inflammation. Please pray with me for God’s healing and comfort.

- gracelyn