Your Daily Prayer

In Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, Alice is told repeatedly that she is not herself — that somewhere between childhood and adulthood, she lost something essential. The Mad Hatter names it plainly: she has lost her muchness. It is a clever phrase, but it points to some ...  Show more

In Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, Alice is told repeatedly that she is not herself — that somewhere between childhood and adulthood, she lost something essential. The Mad Hatter names it plainly: she has lost her muchness. It is a clever phrase, but it points to some ...  Show more

Summer is the season of light. The sun rises early, stretches across long golden afternoons, and lingers well into the evening. On clear nights, bright stars fill the sky long after the sun has set. There is something in us that is naturally drawn to all of that light, and this e ...  Show more

Elijah had just called down fire from heaven. He had outrun a chariot. He had watched God show up in one of the most dramatic displays of power recorded in all of Scripture. And then, just a few verses later, he was sitting under a broom bush in the wilderness, asking God to let ...  Show more

When you look back over everything that has happened — the health issues, the broken relationships, the fear, the disappointment, the things that simply did not work out — it is easy to find yourself asking a quiet and painful question: does God still care about me? Has all of th ...  Show more

Anyone who has sat in a hospital emergency room knows the particular weight of that kind of waiting: filling out forms while in pain, watching others come and go, wondering when your name will be called. And yet something interesting happens in that waiting room. You look around, ...  Show more