DEVO OF THE WEEK

WRITING PRAYERS

I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.
Proverbs 1:23b (NRSV)

I sit in front of an empty page and wonder how to fill it. Where does inspiration come from anyway?
     A summer breeze blows through the window, humid and fragrant. Branches wave green outside my window. These smells, colors, and impressions unleash in me a passion that is birthed out of appreciation for God’s creation. God’s gift of life is so full! Memories, emotions, and beliefs overflow and spill out in words. They make poetry, a song sometimes of praise and sometimes of suffering, a prayer that rises back to God. I write about God, love, friendship, death -- all that my Creator gives.
     I create because that’s who I am. I am made in God’s image and have been given this world to try to understand, to paint in words, and to give back to God. <

Rachel Starr Thomson
Ontario, Canada

Write When God Seems Far Away

Alison Dyck
Ontario, Canada

-- from devozine (July/August 2009). Copyright © 2009 by The Upper Room. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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