Walking in love

Peace prayer of Saint Francis Transcript: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light where there is sadness, joy. O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be lov...

Prayer for a rich person from 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit. Kindle in Andrew humility in this present world. Help him to not put his hope in wealth, which is so uncertain. But to put his hope in you, you richly provide us with everything we need for our enjoyment. Kindle and him energy to do what is good to be rich in good deeds. Kindle in him a spirit of generosity and a willin...

Prayer for an attractive woman. This prayer is meant to be a positive habit you can establish for the cue of seeing an attractive woman in order to replace other responses that are lacking in love. I recommend starting with just the first part to keep it easy: “Come Holy Spirit, kindle in her the fire of your love.” This is an excellent all-purpose prayer for anyone and can train you to desire som...

Prayer for humility. Some of these ideas are drawn from Peter Kreefts book “spiritual direction from Thomas Aquinas” specifically the page on Peace. Another resource is “the rare jewel of Christian contentment” by Jeremiah Burroughs. There are many excellent resources on cultivating humility and I will likely do more recordings on that. Transcript: Come, Holy Spirit, kindle in Christian humility....

This is a prayer asking God to help someone grow in love. There are of course many ways to ask for this most important of virtues. Transcript: Come Holy spirit, Kindle in Leslie, the fire of your love. help her to grow in love that she might love you with all her heart and all her soul. and all her strength, and all her mind. And that she might love her neighbor as herself. Help her to see and tru...

Patience is so beautiful. I overlooked it for many years and I pray you find its beauty soon. The word patience for me has felt weary, yet I pray you can come to see the grace and power of it and come to desire it. I pray for it here in the sense of unhurriedness and gentleness, but of course there are other rich landscapes of patience to explore. Transcript: Come, holy spirit, I ask for the grace...

This is a prayer for freedom and grace to interact with social media in healthy ways. Social media is a powerful amplifier of fears and discontentment, and this prayer is for the freedom to interact with other people in human and loving ways, to help them and serve them and encourage them from a stable center of being loved by God and deeply satisfied in him. Transcript: Come Holy Spirit, free Kev...

This prayer comes from thinking about how Jesus talks about food and drink in the sermon on the mount. It also comes from the idea that we use many kinds of things to dull ourselves to our pain and inner thirst for God, and food and drink is one of them. Transcript: Come, holy Spirit, I pray for Rusty that you would give him freedom from food and drink. May they be to him. gifts from you to be rec...

This prayer was written by Reinhold Neibuhr. My friend Ian introduced me to the full prayer, which helped me see the beauty of it. Before that, I had known only the first few lines, which although beautiful, seem somewhat more like a platitude without the rest of it. Transcript: God, grant Andrew the serenity to accept the things that he cannot change. the courage to change the things that he can,...

My friend Logan wrote this prayer and has a habit of praying it daily. You might be surprised how it will change you if choose to pray it daily. Transcript: Holy Spirit, I want to be content with less. I want to grow into someone who can be more and more joyful with fewer and fewer material things. Please move my desires to be for things that matter and last and bring more life. Amen.

My friend Logan wrote this prayer and is cultivating a habit of praying it when he feels stressed. Transcript: Lord, you are a good father. You know everything and are sovereign over everything, and you care. You are working all things for my good. I am stressed right now. Help these truths to be louder than my circumstances. Help me to remember your love and to feel you close. Amen.

Is there anything better you can imagine to ask for? I often think that this is the one thing that would bring peace to our many sources of anxiety, pain, thirst, emptiness: having a more intimate, trusting and joy-filled relationship with the Holy Spirit in our hour by hour ordinary lives. Transcript: Father. I pray for McLean. I ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit for Him. I know that he has alr...

I wrote this blessing for my god-daughter Quinna. I also have music that goes with it, of which there are a few recordings on YouTube and Bandcamp. The prompt I was working with was “what is the best thing I can imagine for this child?” Transcript: Quinna, may the father of all things hide you under the shadow of his wings. May the Christ from above teach you how to make your home in His love. May...

This is drawn from 1 Corinthians 13:13. The prayer for love is also drawn from a prayer that is used at the end of the “Daily Holy Spirit” episodes in Hallow. I considered what other metaphors might make sense for Faith and hope and came up with light and water. If you want to learn more about these, I suggest the sections of Aquinas’s Summa Theologia on them, or Peter Kreeft’s summary of those se...

This is a way to pray the Lord’s Prayer for someone you love. As many people wiser than me have noted, all prayer has a place within the Lord’s Prayer, so there are many other ways you could do this. You could pray for many things inside a single petition. The Lord’s Prayer is found in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 6, verses 9-13. My example prayer is for Anthony, a man I met at a coffee shop in...

This is a prayer drawn from Ephesians 1:17-19. I pray it for a specific name to show how you might pray it for a specific person you love. Transcript: Emily, may God give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him. May the eyes of your heart be enlightened so that you may know the hope to which he has called you and that you may know the riches of his glorious inheritance i...