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I read this book during Lent, which was the perfect time to read such a book. And let me just say – WOW! Great book. I highly recommend it. For our purposes here, I’m going to break down the review of the book similar to what the book does...

Prayer for April 7, 2022: Please pray with me. God of forgiveness, teach us your ways and open our hearts to follow them. We need forgiveness. And we need to give forgiveness. Holding onto grudges is a heavy burden. Release us of this burden. Release us so all of...

During our weekly mid-week Lenten service, we read a chapter from the book “The Sacred Art of Forgiveness.” It’s a great book with short chapters that lend themselves to powerful conversations. The chapter we read from last evening was about telling your story. It told the story of a...

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Prayer for April 6, 2022: Please pray with me. God of the weak, human history is full of people who think that might makes right. But might doesn’t make right, it just makes force and control. Even if everyone believed whatever the mighty of this world said to be...

Prayer for April 5, 2022: Please pray with me. God of the bigger picture, we often get lost in the minute and specific. We get caught up in specific things. We lose sight of the bigger picture of what you have been up to for so long. We see...

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Prayer for March 31, 2022: Please pray with me. God who sees the big picture, forgive us when we become focused on ourselves and our own experience. We lose sight of what happens to others. Of how they suffer. We make excuses for why their suffering is just not...