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Pray in the moment

Pray in the moment. 

Thoughts. Whispers. Walking conversations with the Father. 

During ordinary, daily tasks. 

At home or on the road. In school or at the office.

Wherever we go.

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Crossing Cultures Memoir

Night watch

Night watch. Our God neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121). 

And sometimes He wakes us in the night. To watch and pray. 

I remember when the two emails arrived. One after the other. To our inbox in Karachi.

Same time. Same message. Traveling across the world. From opposite sides of the United States. 

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Devotional Memoir

Prodigal, part 1

“How did he turn out that way?” my teenaged son asks. We’re standing at the kitchen table. On summer vacation in Arizona. 

He’s distressed. Witnessing up close the rage and deceit of someone he’s trusted and admired. The downhill slide is shocking.

“It probably started with one lie,” I say. “Then another. And another. Until finally he was living a lie.” 

What I do not know at the time of that conversation will come to light a month later. The fact that our son has been lying to us. For a while.

And has moved to “a far country” of deceit fueled by anxiety. Even as he lives within the four walls of our home. 

Prodigal.

The father of lies is after his very soul.