Prayables | tender surrender

Published: Wed, 08/25/21

Wednesday August 25, 2021

Being happy never goes out of style.
Lilly Pulitzer

It doesn't matter if they are black, white, brown, or yellow. Love them all. When they don't act like you, talk like you, or think like you do. Love them
all. May God bless you with love for all.

God's World O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache
and sag And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff! World, World, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew I this; Here such a passion is As stretcheth me apart,—Lord, I do fear Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year; My soul is all but out of me,—let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Proverbs 22:4 Laying your life down in tender surrender before the Lord will bring life, prosperity, and honor as your reward.

DID GOD NOT GIVE ME A CALLING?

by Hannah Brenchner

Dear Hannah,
People always talk about a calling. "God is calling me to ______."
Sometimes, the blank is a person. Sometimes, it's a place or a career. I just graduated college during a pandemic and I don't think I have a calling. I feel like I have no direction or sense of purpose. I feel lost. Did God not give me a calling? Did I miss it? Any direction would be helpful. Please and thank you. xoxo, J

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Dear J,
Calling.
It’s a word I’d never heard until stepping into the church at the age of 22. Quickly, I realized that word was falling off of everyone’s lips.

I’m called to _________.
She’s called to __________.
We are going to ___________ because we’re called.

I felt like maybe something was wrong with me. Like, maybe I missed the Calling 101 course. How could all these people be so “called”? Where was the call? Did I miss it?

These questions swarmed in my head for a long time until I felt my own kind of nudge.

I was 25. I was sitting in the window of Starbucks at 7 am on a Sunday morning...read more

MENTALLY ALERT

I need serious prayers. I have been accepted to university and I need money to start but Anslem O. and Grace A. are stressing me out, trying to make me crazy. I have a son I have to care for, and I need to be mentally alert. Please, my mother died. She was my rock. I need prayers urgently.

- Keisha L.