Trinitarian Prayer of Power

5/12/17

Category: Prayers

Father, thank You for Your unconditional love, for being in my corner, and fighting for me.

Jesus, you are my big brother. You never let go of my hand. Wherever I go, You go. Whatever I feel, You feel. I am never alone.

Holy Spirit, praise You for transforming, empowering, and healing me from the inside out.

Holy Godhead, I am ready for what the day holds. I humble myself before You expecting challenges, seeing them as opportunities to overcome my flesh, fears, and failures.

The Painting

3/8/24

Category: Friendship, Literature, Politics, Prayers, Psychology, Short Stories, Spiritual Formation, Suffering

Nathanael grabs the spear. He shuts his left eye to place his prey in his cross-hairs, then releases the javelin with Odyssean accuracy. But the creature parries. The spear gets stuck in the heart of a warrior in a painting that the king had commissioned 15 years prior.

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The Poet and His Congregation to Christ: Our Beloved and Our Sweet Communion (John 6:35-59)

4/13/23

Category: Beauty, JESUS, Literature, Poetry, Polity, Prayers, Spiritual Formation, Suffering

Come, touch my lips, my Lord, caress
With flesh the flesh of me;
One mortal morsel and my “Yes!”
Shall make me one with thee.
Come, kiss thee into me.

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Maundy Thursday Prince

4/5/23

Category: JESUS, Poetry, Prayers, Psychology, Spiritual Formation, Suffering, Theology

“He massages people’s feet

as he washes away the dirt

and the stench of the street.

He walks with those who suffer

and suffers when those who suffer

go astray.”

This is the Rabbi

who inspires closet skeptics

to “come-out” and pray.

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