#prayer

#prayer

There's a particular kind of heartbreak that happens when you realize some of your prayers are going nowhere. There's a painful silence that follows unanswered calls. Yet, despite the ache, I can still feel the pull to pray to the God outside of myself-that old reflex to place faith in something bigger, some invisible force in the sky, who, apparently, can make things happen magically here on Earth. But it doesn't always go that way, does it?

There are common sense solutions, things done to protect children in schools and churches and to the taking away the constitutional rights of American citizens. This isn't a time to politicize these issues. We mourn for the families and community that's affected. I'm sure you guys saw the father's remarks yesterday for that little boy who was lost, Fletcher Merkel. Such a heart wrenching thing for all of us.

Honour your parents and parent-in-laws regardless of their flaws and it will be well with you in the land.

As a church more broadly, from my perspective, what we need to focus on is what's changed my own life radically is just having our hearts open to the Lord.