A Prayer a Day: Good morning again, Lord, and thank you for another day to love you, our people, and to enjoy our lives. Celebrating life is important, those special days like birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, baptisms, and funerals, allow us to enjoy life, mark special events, and to be close to families and friends. Everything is different now with quarantines and physical distancing mandates. Phone calls, sending cards, smiling and waving from a distance, are how we now say I love you. It is only your presence, Lord, that gives us the right attitude to navigate this situation. When we […]

A Prayer a Day: Good morning, Lord. This morning I saw that in New York at 7:00 P.M. each evening thousands of quarantined people are opening their windows or stepping outside onto their balconies or sidewalks to chap, whistle, and yell thanks to the doctors, nurses, medical support staff, and first responders working to save the lives of Coronavirus victims. Since I saw that news clip, I have been thinking of 1 John 3:18, “Let us not love with words and tongue, but with actions and in truth.” It’s another way to say, “Talk is cheap,” or “It’s easier said […]