Prayers of Hope For Peace Over Your Thoughts
Prayer changes things — especially us. When we bring our worries, regrets and need for control to Jesus, he doesn’t just listen — he leads. His peace moves in quietly, clearing out the noise, shifting our thoughts toward truth. The world may still be spinning, but deep inside, we’re anchored. That’s the power of communion with God. Not flashy, not loud. Just steady. Just holy. Just enough.
The Gift of Lament
Lament doesn’t chase away sorrow — it honors it. In the hush of a hospital room or the hush of a sanctuary, something sacred happens when we let grief speak. Not fix it. Not explain it. Just let it sing, like a melody half remembered that somehow still brings peace. God meets us there, and that meeting changes everything.
The Sabbath Saves Us from Achievement and Productivity
The Sabbath doesn’t shame us for burning out. It meets us there and offers something better. It exposes the lie that we are only as valuable as what we produce.
Miracles Happen in the Mundane
Jesus didn’t wait for a grand stage to hand out joy. He stood on a hillside — ordinary, unimpressive — and spoke the words that changed everything.
How To Calm Anxiety and Find Peace
Anxiety may feel constant, but peace is still possible. Real peace — the kind that holds up under pressure — comes when we fix our eyes on Jesus and lift our hearts in praise. From sunrise to sunset, God invites us to marvel at his goodness, to trust him with our burdens and to let worship become the rhythm that calms our soul and clears our anxious mind.
Sacred Rhythms: Harmonizing Work and Prayer
We’re called to hold work and prayer in healthy tension. Sabbath rest, spiritual practices and space for God aren’t luxuries. They’re the foundation for faithful, fruitful living.
When Memory Becomes Destination
The scent of almond blossoms stirs memory — of childhood barefoot in orchards, of both beauty and ache. Some moments return willingly, others resist. Yet in each, God’s presence threads through time. Even what we forget, he remembers. Our memories — blessing and burden — become places where the sacred and the familiar meet, calling us home to his love that transcends time, pain and even forgetting.
Bypass: Learn to Reroute To Avoid Stress
Stress can’t always be avoided, but peace can be pursued. Like a heart surgeon reroutes blood flow around a blockage, we can create pathways around stress.
The Sacred Familiar
I sit by the window, alone but not lost, letting questions roam freely. The roses spill from cracks in the path — beauty too much to behold yet impossible to ignore. I think of the dreams and imaginings that once kept me company and wonder if they were glimpses of truths not yet seen. Even in uncertainty, I’m grounded. Even in fear, I long for what is beautifully familiar and fully his.
Understanding Your Vocation: Hearing God’s Call
We don’t find our calling by chasing titles or tracking success. We find it by paying attention — to our gifts, our burdens and the quiet nudge of the Spirit.
Finding True Delight in the Lord
I used to think delighting in the Lord meant earning his blessings. But striving wore me down. What I learned instead is this: delight doesn’t begin with us — it begins with him.
Dealing With Grief: Interview With Sister Sarah Hennessey
Grief has many faces, and Sister Sarah Hennessey has seen them all — through funerals, fractured friendships and the quiet ache of transition. In a world that pushes us to grieve alone, she offers a different way: brave grieving in community. “God is the one who stays,” she says. Her vocation isn’t just spiritual direction. It’s walking with others through the sacred work of loss.
No Beginning, No End
She stands in the timeless now, hands clenched until surrender unfolds her palm. No gift, just an open hand. The Father takes it gently, fingers wrapping hers. Together they step into a space without edges — past and present folded like petals of the same bloom. She offers nothing but herself. He calls it everything. This is not the beginning. This is not the end. This is the beauty of always here.
Jesus’ Family Was More Dysfunctional Than Yours
Matthew’s Gospel doesn’t shy away from Jesus’ messy family tree. His genealogy includes adulterers, outsiders and deeply flawed people — names like Tamar, Rahab, David and Bathsheba. In a world where ancestry was your résumé, Matthew highlights dysfunction on purpose. Why? To remind us that God works through broken families and broken people. If Jesus’ family was a mess, there’s hope for the rest of us too.
Anger Can Be Good And Healthy — But Only To A Point
Anger, like all emotions, isn’t inherently bad. It just is. Even God gets angry. But left unexamined, it can become corrosive — festering in silence or exploding into harm. The healthiest anger starts with honesty: What’s really beneath the rage? Sadness? Fear? Disappointment? When anger is softened by truth and shaped by the Spirit, it becomes fuel for compassion, not destruction — a surprising virtue in a world full of vice.
God, Are You Even Listening?
When God doesn’t answer, it can feel like he’s left the building. You’ve prayed, waited, knocked and nothing. But silence isn’t absence. Scripture says he hears before we even finish asking.
A New Kind of Life
Love, at its deepest, always costs something. It’s not just sentiment—it’s sacrifice, presence and patience. We discover this not just in marriage or parenting, but in ordinary, daily encounters with neighbors and friends. The “frets and rubs” of life, as C.S. Lewis called them, are part of how God shapes us — how he teaches us to love like he does. And that’s the beginning of a new kind of life.
Radical Forgiveness
Forgiveness isn’t a suggestion — it’s survival. Every day, offenses stack up: a rude driver, a snarky comment, a deep betrayal. Jesus calls us to forgive it all. Not later. Now.
Can Prayer Help Those Who Are Sick?
When illness strikes, prayer often becomes a lifeline. But does it change outcomes? Scripture promises healing, yet not everyone who prays gets well. Some experience miracles, while others find peace rather than a cure. What does science say? And how does faith shape the way we endure suffering? A closer look at prayer, healing, and the mystery in between.
Sane Ways to Re-Engage With the News
Too much news can be a wrecking ball to your peace. Too little, and you risk disengaging from the world entirely. How do you stay informed without losing your mind? A more measured approach — one that values brevity, levity and dignity — might just be the way forward. Re-engaging with the news doesn’t have to mean drowning in it. It can be about wisdom, perspective and keeping your heart tender.