Seven Prayers of Protection for this School Year
We all saw the video clips of the shooting in Uvalde. We’ve heard the heart-wrenching cries and outrage of parents who lost their children in the shooting rampage. Part of me wanted to wrap my arms around these grieving and bereft parents. Another part of me wanted to roar at the TV and in my […]
Ten Bold Prayers to Start the School Year
Launch your child into the 2021-2022 school year emboldened through prayer. Yes, summer is almost over! Back-to-school deals are everywhere, and school starts Friday, August 6, here in Tennessee! While not a spiritual event, starting school is a chance to reboot spiritual priorities, specifically prayer. Commit to pray intentionally and boldly for your child. I’ve […]
8 Ways You Can Pray For Your Child in 2021
This year looks a lot like 2020 doesn’t it? For my family, 2020 ended with an explosion in downtown Nashville knocking out all of our AT&T services—TV, internet, and cell service. (We are rethinking this communications strategy.) And we all witnessed the chaos and destruction in our Capitol last week. Can we agree the world […]
What if we can’t find the words?
by Elizabeth-Anne Lovell It is a difficult thing, isn’t it? To pray when you can’t find the words. Maybe you have prayed for so long you can’t think of any more words. Maybe there is so much going on that you don’t know what words to start with. Maybe you are too tired to speak. […]
Simple Prayers for Small Ones
When my kids were younger, I took the three of them to a mall to explore a dinamation exhibit. The low-tech robotic dinosaurs mimicked the sounds and movement of these extinct creatures. Halfway through the mall, I stopped in a Hallmark store to buy a card, but I saw only two of my children when […]
“No Prayer, No Power”
My daughter, Carol, called and asked me to come over. I found her sitting on her porch glowing. She blurted out, “I’m pregnant.” While I waited for baby Anne, my second grandchild, to arrive, I decided to update my will. It hadn’t been easy to determine in the original will what gifts I would give […]