Prayables | like gentle rain on grass

Published: Tue, 07/06/21

Tuesday July 6, 2021

Someone who refuses to keep the commandments until they understand them, is like someone who refuses to eat until they understand how the digestive process works.

Friediker Rebbe

Doing what comes naturally is easy. Doing what takes extra effort is much harder. May God bless you with a nice balance of easy and effort as you go about
the daily activities of living.

When I feel that I can't take it anymore, I reach up to You. Expand my vision so I can see my future is bright. Fill me with fortitude,

Deuteronomy 32:2 May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew, like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.

MY THREE DOGS

By Gemma Correll
I suffer from anxiety and depression. My dogs help to improve my mental — and physical — health every day. Scientists believe positive human-animal interaction is linked to a reduction of subjective psychological stress and an increase of oxytocin levels in the brain.

Oxytocin is a hormone and neurotransmitter that is associated with feelings of love, trust and psychological stability. Living with pets has multiple benefits. Here are just a few that I experience...READ MORE

Enjoy this uniquely illustrated story

RESCUE ME

I don’t know how to pray anymore. I try and trust God, but I can’t. Everything I’ve asked for, hundreds of prayers, the same over and over, go unanswered. I know God is here, but why doesn’t he do anything. I need help, my family keeps going through hardship and we don’t ever have enough to pay taxes. I can’t keep living like this and the burden is so much. I just want God’s help and peace but it never comes. I ask others to pray because maybe the Lord will listen to them instead of me. I have so much hurt and worry and anxiety. And I just need the Lord to come and rescue me.

- Beth