Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

God sits enthroned, ready to listen, to help.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don’t look for his majesty. [Tweet this] We travel life’s paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans. But we don’t really expect God to show up with divine wonder.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.