- Stretch Out Your Arms to Rest; or, a Prayer Advance + Brewery Tour Maybe it’s the New Year, maybe it’s the weather, maybe it was the sacredness of hearing Justin and Danielle say their homemade vows to each other last weekend, but everything in me said it is time to have an intentional pause in my life. This weekend I booked a night at a nice bed & […]
- I Heart PiHop Ahhh, I love PiHop, Pasadena’s little prayer nook. What a beautiful community they’ve nurtured there. I would like to spend more time at PiHop in 2010. They just launched their nice new website and blog, check it out. I just read the first blog post about Jim Goll’s prophetic word to PiHop: “Help dig the […]
- Holga Photo, I Did Not Take [When I get tired sometimes I go on Flickr and just browse all of other people’s fotos labled “Holga.” It is fun and better than television shows. This shot is by shadowbrush.] Today I started a two-day seminar on ways to help heal the little hearts of children traumatized by awful things like war or […]
- Dear God, Keep My Heart Soft Sometimes we don’t see the state of things until we feel the splitting. (And we will embrace it.)
- day twenty-six. (for Mama.)
- Sweet Baby Jesus A couple days past Christmas, and I’m still wondering about the baby’s birth. I’m wondering how I celebrated an entire holiday devoted to Jesus being born, and thought so little about him. Don’t get me wrong, Christmas is lovely. I love being with my family. I love giving and receiving little gifts. I love all […]
- Streams for Sunday: Debt and Indebted I need more concentrated Sabbath in my life.
- IHOP in Your Room The wild folks at IHOP in Kansas City have a brand new high-quality webstream live from their 24-7 prayer room. I remember them setting up for this massive-thing when I was at One Thing. I’ve had their Noon to 2pm set on the speakers as they’ve been meditating on and singing through Jesus’ words in […]
- Fire at Simple Way House: Pray, Please I just got word that this morning there was a 7-alarm fire at the Simple Way house in Philadelphia, home of Shane Claiborne. Shane recently penned The Irresistible Revolution, a book on his experiences of living in this new monastic community he helped to establish. Here’s what Billy from the Ashram just wrote about the […]
- 24-7 Prayer Musings We’re about 50 hours into our week of prayer. Here are my current musings: 1. Sometimes it’s easier for me to be honest by banging out wordless prayers on a djembe or on guitar strings than it is for me to mutter things aloud to God. 2. Maybe some folks who aren’t as sensory-oriented sometimes […]
- 24-7 Prayer Week Yesterday we kicked off a 24-7 Prayer week at my church. Sunday morning about 10 middle and high school kiddos transformed my office into the prayer room while sweating, laughing, and eating Doritos. We’re about 30 hours into it and we’ve had a pretty much unbroken chain of prayer, much to my surprise. This afternoon […]
- On Elijah’s Rotten Kidney Here’s a quick update on Elijah Wyman’s kidney transplant. Thanks for the prayer, if that was you: 1. His surgery went well.2. His kidney-giving friend’s surgery went well.3. Pray for the icky reactions he’s having to the immunosuppressants.4. Here’s what his Daddy says:Elijah is doing well this morning, and of course, the next few days […]