Holy Wrestling
Paperback Bible flopped open on my lap Halted by a phrase a fleeting thought I grasp at it! . I catch it! And peace drops from the ceiling as the new view infil...
Author: Heather Paige Hunt
Loosed Flock of Dreams
The lichen glows neon on rain-darkened tree trunks A breeze rustles droplets from each budding branch Then bursts out the sun making everything shimmer and the ...
Seven Sacred Pauses: The Age-old Tradition of Praying the Hours
Praying the hours is a tradition that began in the Tabernacle and was carried on by the early church. Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven t...
Daybreak and Midmorning Prayers
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Noon and Midafternoon Prayers
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Evensong and Compline
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
The Nightwatch
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Printable One-page Journaling Guides
Click the images below to view and print Prayer Journaling Guides from the Fayetteville Prayer Room. If you are using your phone, I recommend viewing them in “p...
Bookend Your Year with Stillness
We are silent in the early hours of each day, because God is supposed to have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep, because to God also belon...
We Give a Birthday Present to Jesus
Every Sunday in December, we add another candle to our Advent wreath. By Christmas Day, five bright candles light up the table. So, we open up the children’s Bi...
Sing Muddy Bird
Like a muddy bird in a sudden sunbeam, For a moment, she believes she may fly, But the moment passes and She settles back down into the gray mud . Sing muddy bi...
An Invitation to the Last Supper
This piece first appeared as a daily devotional for [in]courage ministry by Dayspring. Incourage created the accompanying image. For years, I’d confess and re-c...
Aglow in Your Gut
A glow in your gut Hidden somewhere under your ribcage Dim, like poisoned Tinkerbell. You want to believe! You want to believe! So, reach down and wrench it out...
Journaling Vulnerably: Trust and Transformation
Many Christians settle for salvation, then wait for heaven. We read about the freedom and wholeness Jesus proclaims, and we dream about the peace and joy that s...
Journaling Vulnerably: Ask God About It
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense and don’t know why, I ask myself questions and follow the thought-train it rele...
Journaling Vulnerably: Find Solitude and Consider Your Emotions
I like to think of time in solitude as breathing in and breathing out. In solitude, BREATHE IN scripture. Expect God to speak to you personally as you read. Som...
We Borrowed a Ram
We expect lambs in May! Our “sheep guy” loans rams in exchange for one lamb come spring. When he delivered our loaner today, he had young ewes in tow… and one e...
Reflections on Our Time at Asbury
You may already know about the 2023 revival at Asbury University. A weekly chapel gathering lasted for weeks. We drove to Kentucky to experience it ourselves. W...
Journaling Scripture: The Two Pen Approach
Many of the journaling guides I have shared integrate scripture reading, but none tell how to simply use your journal in your personal Bible study. So here begi...
Journaling Scripture: Invite God to Exhort You
Exhort means “to spur on, build up and encourage… to reprove, rebuke and correct.” Some of us have trouble letting God encourage us, while some of us have troub...
Journaling Scripture: Write it Out Real and Raw and Deep
The Bible is full of promises, precepts and descriptors. When you read one, stop and journal it. JOURNALING SCRIPTURE’S PROMISES When I read something in the Bi...
Journaling Scripture: Use Your Imagination
Try personalizing stories from scripture by putting yourself in the shoes of Bible characters. Whether it’s Gideon in a winepress or Mary Magdalene at the empty...
School Is Out at Sparrow Springs
Today, the kids hung hammocks between the oaks. They built rock castles at the creek and picked blackberries in the fence line, followed by nosy sheep. They hun...
Our First Honey Harvest
Poppies have given way to zinnias and the meadow is bright with black-eyed susans. The bees like the white clover best. Our beekeeper, Brian Bailey, has a goal ...
What’s New on Our Little Farm
It has been an eventful few weeks on our three Ozark acres. This spring, we bought three Kathadin sheep! They will mow the pasture for us and give us lambs to s...
Journaling to Rest
“Cast all your cares on Him. For He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 An Invitation to Rest Once your Bible and journal are open, you are in a sacred space. Prepare y...
Journaling to Settle Anxieties
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense with worry or am nervous about a decision, I ask myself a few simple questions....
Journaling to Remember
The night before Jesus died, he told the disciples that the Holy Spirit would “teach [them] all things and bring to remembrance all that He had said to [them].”...