Only By Prayer

Where the sacred and everyday meet

Sacred Everyday

Puffball Seeds of Prayer

You never know when God will intersect your everyday with something sacred. Even something as simple as a dandelion. The other day I was walking out to the mailbox and glanced down. Lying at my feet was a perfect puffball of a dandelion gone to seed. Detached from its root, it was resting on my blacktop driveway […]

What Am I Missing?

I looked over at Mary furiously typing away, hunched over her keyboard eyes locked on the screen. I had been in the same position myself for the last 90 minutes sitting next to her at the desk. We were at the beautiful Mahseh retreat center having been blessed  to find this secluded haven on Lake […]

Sacred Everyday #5 Columbian Nativity

Over the weekend, Mark and I were sharing pizza with friends, talking about our family Christmas traditions. One of our friends is from Columbia, and I asked him about how they celebrated Christmas in Columbia when he was a child. It’s so interesting to learn what’s important in other cultures. In his village, Christmas Eve […]

The Sacred Everyday No. 2: Purls of Wisdom

  Captivating colors                                                  and                                                    tempting textures of luscious yarn never fail to lure me into big or little knitting shops I happily stumble across. Such was the case the other morning, and I, entranced, open the door and follow my eyes to the skeins posing on the shelves. I walk back and forth […]

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