All Prayer Guides

Prayer means something different when life gets hard. Each piece here is an honest reflection on what it means to pray through a specific moment of pain, doubt, or exhaustion, written not as a formula to follow, but as an exploration of how prayer can meet you exactly where you are.

40 prayer guides — page 7 of 8

  1. On Forgiveness

    Prayer for Forgiveness When You Don't Want to Forgive

    Knowing you should forgive and wanting to are entirely different things. For the person who is honest enough to admit they don't want to and needs help with the willingness before anything else.

    Gregg Hovis, PhD 7 min read
  2. On Fear

    Prayer for Fear When You Don't Know What You're Afraid Of

    Fear without a name is harder to carry than fear with one. When the feeling is real but the source isn't findable, the fear itself becomes the thing you're afraid of. For the person living inside objectless dread.

    Robert Ford 7 min read
  3. On Fear

    Prayer for Fear When Everyone Around You Seems Fine and You're Not

    When fear is yours alone and the world around you appears entirely normal, the isolation of that gap is its own burden on top of the fear itself. For the person who can't find anyone else who seems to be living what they're living.

    Gregg Hovis, PhD 7 min read
  4. On Depression

    Prayer for Depression When You're Hiding It From Everyone

    Performing okay when you're not is its own exhaustion on top of the depression itself. For the person quietly drowning while the world sees someone who is fine.

    Robert Ford 7 min read
  5. On Marriage

    Prayer for a Marriage When Only One of You Is Trying

    When you're the one praying, changing, showing up and your spouse has gone somewhere you can't follow. The loneliness inside a marriage can be harder than being alone. For the one carrying the weight of two.

    John Hovis 7 min read

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