Category: prayer
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Overwhelmed
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” – Matthew 26:39 ESV Of all the moments leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion, the hardest one for me to wrap my…
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The Table In the Corner
He came stumbling through our doors back in March. Shivering, sweating, pacing back and forth to our restroom. He was having some terrible withdrawals. I thought he would die right there on our couch in the shop that day. We made him go to the Emergency Room that evening, and later that night drove him…
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Keep Pointing
It was one night last fall, when my son stepped up to bat during his little league game. Before he took his batting position he did gave his bat a practice swing, adjusted his stance and deliberately pointed his finger toward the outfield to indicate where he intended to put the ball. If you’re any…
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Get a Grip
We all get frustrated with folks. We all wish we could just tell them how we feel. But sometimes the best thing to do is to just get a grip…on grace.
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Asking for Prayer Support
One of the interesting things about having a coffee shop and a church in the heart of downtown, is the reality that you never know who you’re going to meet on any given day. We’ve had some doozies walk into our doors. Like the guy who walked in drunk one night, years ago, and .…
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Made for More
She comes in every day, to get a cup of coffee from the Pay It Forward wall. He comes in with her, and how I wish she could break free from the short rope he has tied to her. He barks at her, “Get my coffee first!” She always complies. They came in today, wrapped…
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In The Waiting
Today has been a challenging day. The first half of our day was spent in a courtroom, listening to testimonies, drying tears from our eyes, and ultimately walking out in frustration because three hours produced very little direction for one little girl’s future. I’ve struggled to process all of that today. So, I’ve distracted myself…
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Life is Short. Eternity is Forever.
I stood by her bedside a little while ago. She could only communicate with a pen and paper. It was almost a year ago that I stood by her husband’s bedside. He had collapsed the day before in the checkout line at Walmart. A couple of customers and myself tried to resuscitate him. He survived, but only…
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Praying in Cirlces
They are one of the first and easiest shapes we learn to draw in school, or even pre-school. They don’t have to be perfect, just relatively discernable. They are naturally formed when we stand in a group of people. If we get lost, we get the most frustrated when we realize that we’ve been driving in them…