Million Praying Moms Blog
A Prayer to Remember God Never Changes
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I have lost the ability to sleep past 6:30. It's true that my addiction to coffee may have a slight connection to this, but I also blame my heritage. My grandma woke up around 5:30 every day so I feel like...
A Prayer for When You Want to Turn Away
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY The crowds followed Jesus closely as he healed their sick, made their lame walk, and made life and breath and being enter back into their dead. He had filled their stomachs with bread, met their needs,...
A Prayer to Let Go of Guilt
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Fear of failure still tempts me and drives me hard. I want my grown-up girls to think I'm the best mom in the world, and I want you to think that too. The pressure to perform remains a constant pull in my...
A Prayer of Hope After Miscarriage
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY However, it was apparent to me within the first few moments that something was wrong. After several twists of the wand and pushes of the button, the sonographer, a friend of ours, turned to me with tears...
A Prayer for Rescue
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY My friend Robin needed a rescue one day. She was walking home from class her senior year at Indiana University during the blizzard of the century. The odds were not in her favor as she set out uphill in...
A Prayer for Controlling Your Emotions
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY We don't know exactly what was happening in David's life when he wrote Psalm 13, but it's safe to assume he felt death was close and very real. Perhaps his emotions threatened to run away while he was...
A Prayer to Remember God Sings Over You
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I make myself a cup of coffee and sit down in my big red chair. It's not even six in the morning. In the last week, I've slept a sum total of ten hours. I'm severely lacking and beginning to think sleep is...
A Prayer to Let the Love of Jesus Wash Over You
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I made a commitment of faith when I was just nine years old. Wide-eyed and trembling in the cold baptismal waters, I nodded my head in agreement as the pastor of my small Baptist church asked me if I had...
A Prayer for Redeeming Mommy Guilt
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Mommy guilt can cause a weariness a nap won't fix. It weighs us down and wears us out. It turns perfectly normal moms into women who are convinced they could win the prize for the worst mom of the year....
A Prayer to Try One More Time
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Motherhood is hard physical labor, sweaty work, manual labor of the most intense kind because it requires more than just body. Turns out it's hard heart labor too. And when the work doesn't pay off, when...
A Prayer to Fix Your Eyes
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Runners tell me the most important part of a long run has to do with the pace they run. If you start out too fast, you will wear yourself out too quickly and have nothing left at the end. Their pace is...
A Prayer to Endure When Motherhood is Hard
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY My youngest son has an amazing laugh. Everyone who hears it smiles big and tells us the same thing, "He's incredible!" and I nod my head in agreement because he is. The only problem is that his laugh...
A Prayer for Sweet Release
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I wish I could tell you that my phantom mom, who I've named Carol, doesn't ever creep into my heart and make me feel inadequate. As my kids have gotten older, my fear of failure as a mom has little to do...
A Prayer to Trust God in Your Lack
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY As moms, it's easy to look at our lack and get depressed about all the things we don't naturally bring to the table for our kids. I look at the fun mom and I see my lack. More than that, I look at the fun...
A Prayer for Rest in Your Labors
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY It has taken me more than 40 years and four babies to finally get to this place of removing the veil of "fine", it's not been fun. In particular, the last few years have not been easy, but they have been...
A Prayer for Grace in the Mess
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY Beer and cigarettes. Yep, you read that right. No, let me do that again. Yep, you heard that right. Beer and cigarettes. The phone call went something like this: Honey, I need you to come home now the...
A Prayer for Loving Unconditionally
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY As soon as I saw the two pink lines revealed on the little white strip my heart changed. As my belly expanded and I felt them move, my affection grew. The excitement built as my husband Brian and I decided...
A Prayer for Overcoming Fear
APPLE PODCASTS † SPOTIFY I didn't want to put myself out there again. Every time I did, I was met with disinterest. I already felt like I didn't belong in the group, which seemed to be affirmed each time I brought up an idea or...