Megan's prayer: Jars of Clay's "Overjoyed"

Both tomorrow and Wednesday I have the opportunity to spend very personal and intimate time with Jesus – time spent going to Adoration. One of my favorite times of the week – a time just to sit and be in his presence.

Today’s song raised a question, one that I find myself occasionally asking…

Who am I that I should company with something so divine?

How am I, an imperfect human, so lucky that I have the opportunity to get to hang out with Jesus every week? Am I really worthy to just sit in his presence, talking to him? Maybe this all goes back to my insecurities and question of self worth. Hopefully tomorrow I will realize that he wants me there as much as I want to be there, if not more.

Marie's Prayer: Jars of Clay's "Overjoyed"

Mirror spins
Wicked tales
Here lies reflections of
Deceptions

I have been looking through the rearview mirror lately on not only my past, but my parents' past. There were deceptions and I can still hear my dad's voice recounting wicked tales of the deception. These facts have impressed different ideas in my head about who my parents are. Sometimes I wish I'd never asked about the divorce in the first place. All those ugly details have put thoughts in my head that one shouldn't think. So I will try to get past the past and focus on the here and now.

Erinnicole's Prayer: Jars of Clay's "Overjoyed"

I don't like the one I have created today
Crossing nameless from the one I've earned
To be the one, the one you gave to me

As i have said before, this is my latest and greatest struggle. So this pops out at me. I sort of feel uncreative, honestly but it is so dominant in my heart that i guess i can't help but hear God's voice in this way. This basically sums up all of the feelings i am having, and its so annoying and upsetting to realize that the reason i am this way, so seemingly far from God, is because of my own choices. no one makes the choice to put and keep a wall up between God, i do that with my actions. last night, i tried very hard to pull that wall down because i feel like i am literally talking to a wall sometimes when i try to pray since my heart isn't in it. i am more or less talking into the darkness, even though i know He is there and can hear me. i want to be able to speak to him like i would to a friend that would listen. but i was having such a problem with it. so i brought it to my mom and she said that when words can't be found, simple things like "Jesus, I hurt" can be just as effective because you are willingly making the attempt at conversation. it helped. each night, i pray that i be able to be a little more of the person God wants me to be and a little less of the negative image i have created around certain people or for certain things...because i do recognize that not all of me is bad :) thanks to Him.

Chris' prayer: Jars of Clay's "Overjoyed"

About five months ago, I started attending weekly Adoration/Holy Hour up at church. Before doing this, I had only been to Adoration with praise and worship music and 30-1500 other people. Never before had it just been me and Jesus (or me, two others, and Jesus).

And, to be honest, I was a little scared to go the first time. How would I fill an entire hour? Just how boring would it be? Could I possibly do this once, let alone on a weekly basis?

Now, though, I long for that hour each week. I long for that time where I can just be with my Savior and feel His presence as He sits right there before me. I long to hear the words that He implants on my heart each week.

More than anything, I long for the peace that comes in His presence. No matter what is going on that week, no matter how many things I have to do, or what might be going wrong, or what I'm worried about, during that hour, I'm able to put all of it aside, to place all of it at His feet, if only for that one hour. I have found, in a very real way, that

Thoughts of peace can overcome anything.

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