Modest conventional expectations werent enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.

Gods fundamental goal for believers is not to protect us from harm or suffering to make us comfortable or to benefit from our service. You can biblically sum up Gods primary aim for your whole life in one uncomfortable word change. Ironic as it may sound change is the one constant that God purposes for every believer regardless of circumstances - whether you are in ministry or in a secular job married or single healthy or handicapped chronically ill or terminally diseased. Gods immediate and ongoing purpose for every Christian in time and on earth is to change us to make us like Himself to conform us to the image of His Son.

I can but pray the Father o a to haud his ee upon her an his airms aboot her an keep aff the hardenin o the hert at despises coonsel

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Cry no tears for us my friend. I pry at her fingers panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday. From the corpse of Warren his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth Allow the tide sweep free the bay. Then together they sing in zombie choir And home the ships sailing send.

Grant us a vision Lord To see what we can achieve To reach out beyond ourselves To share our lives with others To stretch our capabilities To increase our sense of purpose To be aware of where we can help To be sensitive to your Presence To give heed to your constant call.

I see you kneeling in churchstained only by colored windows

To try to pray is to pray. You cant fail at it. Its the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.