Tag Archives: #prayer

“Death does not have the last word”

I’ll admit, I’m cheating today. In the midst of my prayer posting last week, one of the pastors at my church (United Church of Christ) sent around this email. I thought it resonant, though it may be a little too … Continue reading

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“We still have to ask”

When my son Ander died, after weeks of people praying fervently for him, I faced a seismic shift in my relationship with God and with prayer. As I discussed last week, I no longer have the naive belief that God … Continue reading

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On prayer and the “randomness of the world”

After yesterday’s post, I saw several others that led to a related tangent. Clearly, others saw it too, as Gretchen so astutely commented, noting: “Recently, there was an airplane that nearly crashed into a couple’s suburban bedroom. The owners were … Continue reading

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If it happened to Mary…

I am a first born. I tell you this because it was what my mother used to say to justify why I was such a perfectionist as a child, so anxious to “get it right.” I was the child always labelled … Continue reading

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