Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022. Daily prayers to start your day in God's love.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

To improve the condition or strength of something worn-out or weak is to revive it. When an old toy or concept becomes popular or important again (insert bellbottoms) it is revived or experiencing a state of revival. In a church setting, a revival, for those who have never experienced it, is a series of services, usually within a weeks’ time, intended to awaken the heart to the critical need to accept God as your personal Lord and Savior.

As a little girl sitting alone in my acolyte robe on the front pew of my small-town church, my legs too short to touch the floor, I remember being terrified of the pastor. Dressed in his robe of all black, towering over me from the pulpit, he yelled, a lot. Of course, my small, undeveloped brain from nearly 40 years ago does not remember the actual words he used, but the feelings persist.

God of the universe, I come to you now as the United States of America navigates this presidential election. Lord, hear my prayer. Speak clearly to me, guide my thoughts and actions as I actively exercise my right to vote for those who will lead this country. Lord, hear my prayer. Open my ears to hear your voice in my neighbors – all my neighbors, red neighbors, and blue neighbors – those with whom I agree and disagree. Lord, hear my prayer.

When my youngest was born, I started an 18-month journey to lose 100 pounds. It was not easy. I learned a number of lessons during that journey – some I remember and some I have forgotten. This post is a reminder of what I thought I had forgotten.

I realized I haven’t been “worshipping” in the way I feel I needed to…in a way that is present and vulnerable, in a way that reminds me I am there to give thanks and praise. I’ve been busy, diligent, managing technology mishaps and weather. I am not one bit upset by this and I wouldn’t change it - I actually debated writing this because I don’t dare come across as upset or complaining…instead, I write this to process my experience and emotions from this week. Perhaps others have similar experiences.

It never occurred to me to consider what it means to be strong as a child. It wasn't part of the vocabulary of my life. It wasn’t until after I lost 100 pounds and started running marathons and lifting weights that I began to allow the idea of strength to settle in my mind and self image. But that was a mistake. My trainers at the gym would talk about building strength, but that was code for a self absorbed image in most cases.