20. Serve Others Present your life as a living sacrifice, responding in graciousness and hospitality Jon Acuff wrote a great post yesterday that basically says you can tell if you’re a leader with one sentence. If you ask “What can I give to this person?” instead of what can I get from this person?”, you [...]

18. Pray Unceasingly Pray continually alone and with others Lord isn’t your creation wasteful? Fruits never equal the seedlings’ abundance. Springs scatter water. The sun gives out enormous light. May your bounty teach me greatness of heart. May your magnificence stop me being mean. Seeing you a prodigal and open-handed giver let me give unstintingly [...]

18. Pray Unceasingly Pray continually alone and with others O Lord, take away from us all coldness, all  wandering of the thoughts, and fix our souls upon thee and thy love. O merciful Lord and Saviour, in this our hour of prayer. Amen.                  -Edward White Benson

18. Pray Unceasingly Pray continually alone and with others Give us, Lord, a humble, quiet, peaceable, patient, tender and charitable mind, and in all our thoughts, words and deeds a taste of the Holy Spirit.  Give us, Lord, a lively faith, a firm hope, a fervent charity, a love of you.  Take from us all [...]