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Welcome to Only By Prayer

Please Excuse our Mess! We are in the midst of redesigning our site, so things are in a bit of a mess! We should be much better in just a day or two! Grab a cup of coffee or tea, get comfortable, and explore what God has for you today. At Only By Prayer, we’re […]

The Sacred Everyday #3: Free Wheelin’

Saturday morning found me zooming along on my bike to the butcher shop for my weekly shopping. There’s something freeing about relying on your own power to get you around the city, and I love pedaling along the Monon Trail whenever I can. A wrong turn on the way home brought me through this neighborhood.

The Sacred Everyday No. 1: An Answered Prayer

I am excited to post my first Sacred Everyday moment. If you’re not sure exactly what I’m talking about, read this post and you’ll understand. Today I signed on to Facebook and was greeted by this post from my son.

The Sacred Everyday

One of my passions is finding the sacred in the everyday, like our tagline says. While I love special holidays and holy days, I don’t want to wait just for those times to draw close to God. I want to sharpen my sense of Him every day. But it’s too easy to get caught up in […]

Sticky Handprints

When my children were little, I would often find their little sticky handprints all around the house, especially on the windows and sliding glass door in the kitchen. I could see the perfect outline of their tiny hands and noses where they had leaned in to the window pressing against it to eagerly watch snowflakes […]

Nature Up Close: Transformation

As I was working in my garden tonight, I was delighted to see five caterpillars (I think they’re monarchs) on my dill plant! What a treat to get such a close-up view of them doing what they do best–eating. I love observing the small, often unseen creatures in nature. As you may or may not […]