For close to a decade, I’ve been observing the practice of choosing a word by which to live for the new year. This is inspired by One Word 365, and I have found it a preferable alternative to making resolutions. Most years that I’ve done this, I have experienced positive results: it has added greaterContinue reading “Flow: A Mid-Year Check-in”
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A Prayer at the Crossroads
based on Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Faithful God, what comes next? Here we stand, our backpack filled with questions. We could bring them out one by one or dump them in the dust under the stoplight, where they’ll be intermittently lit by a lone blinking red bulb. They’ll be questions related to health, or relationships, orContinue reading “A Prayer at the Crossroads”
A Prayer at Midnight
based on Acts 16:16-34 Faithful God, the time is engulfed in shadows. Our hands and feet feel tied down by our own helplessness and hopelessness. The wounds and grief of the world run so deep and wide that we cannot bring ourselves to sing our hymns and spiritual songs. We fall down trembling at thisContinue reading “A Prayer at Midnight”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 