Prayer Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/prayer/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:15:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Prayer Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/prayer/ 32 32 26348127 A Benediction: I Hope For You https://adelightfulglow.com/a-benediction-i-hope-for-you/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-benediction-i-hope-for-you/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:15:49 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49391 I hope, my friends, this year has been good for you. Not perfect. Not hashtag blessed. Not even fantastic. No need to glance at all the glossy appeal the highlight reels might give us. Instead, may we gaze around, and in, the interior of our real lives we live one quiet day after another.As we reflect back, [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/a-benediction-i-hope-for-you/feed/ 2 49391 A Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:26:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49211 Muted Autumn Muted autumn.It speaks of the beauty of cycles and seasons, rhythms and rest, glory and goodness.It sounds of cadence and crunch, drifting leaves and dried seed pods,honking geese and crackling hearthfires.Muted Autumn.An embrace, an exhale,A metastasis, a muse,A quietude.Muted Autumn.A welcome home. Beauty Bursts Beauty bursts.In obvious places, like flower bloomsAnd arranged bouquets,But [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/feed/ 0 49211 There Is Always Someone To Pray For https://adelightfulglow.com/there-is-always-someone-to-pray-for/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 23:22:24 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=48060 There is always someone to pray for. Some days it’s your neighbor grieving her spouse.Other days it’s your son moving across several states.Your friend in the country above yours, sick with a stomach bug.Prayers for teachers in classrooms.Orphans who need homes and arms to hug them.Refugees resettling in your neighboring city.Politicians weighing decisions.Rejoicing as you [...]

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]]> 48060 A Prayer For Those In Need of a Way Through The Waves https://adelightfulglow.com/a-prayer-for-those-in-need-of-a-way-through-the-waves/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:11:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=48045 A bit of a preface, comrade friends………..Today I bring us a prayer. The words and heartcry were inspired by Ann Voskamp’s upcoming new book, Waymaker.In a bit of news, two-fold, I am part of an internship group with Ann Voskamp for the duration of 2022 AND our group was graced with an early manuscript reading [...]

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]]> 48045 A Prayer For the Ones Carrying Suffering and Sorrow https://adelightfulglow.com/a-prayer-for-the-ones-carrying-suffering-and-sorrow/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:01:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=47921 A Prayer For the Ones Carrying Suffering and Sorrow Jesus, thank you that you are not distantly removed from suffering. Thank you that you meet us in our suffering. You endured suffering to share in our heartache. Jesus, you bottle tears. You soothe fears. Your comfort and compassion relentlessly carries us through the quicksand. Endless [...]

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]]> 47921 A Prayer of Light https://adelightfulglow.com/a-prayer-of-light/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-prayer-of-light/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:39:26 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=47868 A prayer for this day, this month of December ~ Our Lord God ~ Adonai Elohim Your word tells us the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. We sit in darkness on these long winter evenings and we long for This Light to make a way in our weary world.We pray, [...]

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