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

and i stand here wondering.
and i am waiting

This is precisely what I am doing now. I am waiting for the truth to come out and wondering if everything will be okay in the end. One of my friends has made a decision and now all I have to do is wait and see if the other person will be okay. So I stand and wait. I have to tell you that I hate waiting just like Inigo Montoya from the Princess Bride. Waiting makes me anxious and it is never good. Waiting always means that something bad might be about to happen. I just have to give this to God and hope He'll make a choice that is good for not only me, but this other person as well.

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

always almost

this is really how i feel a lot of the time. that i am so close to something...and then it doesn't happen. I feel like so many things are dangled in front of me but never given. in actuality, that isn't so because God has graced me with so many blessings, but for some reason my focus, optimist that i usually am, falls on the things i didn't get. my prayer is for sight, to see the things I have and not the things i don't.

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

Faultless in the eyes that I could never open wide enough to see me through.

Sometimes I wonder how distorted my view of self is. I wonder if I'm seeing the same things that others see in me, or just how different their view is. Would I rate myself better or worse of a person than others would? Where would the discrepancy lie? Would it lie in my thoughts? My actions? My attitude? How does God see me? How could I better reflect the image of Him?


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

Sometimes I find myself getting so tangled up in schoolwork, not being able to see the end, that I stress myself out. Suddenly going to school isn’t about the learning anymore, it’s about the grades, and what those grades mean to my future. I get worked up about a two page paper, thinking that if I don’t do this right, I might screw up my chances of getting a good grade in the class. I forget about the pure joy of learning something new, of using my creativity, of expanding my mind into places I’ve never gone.

I’m “unsatisfied with simple things”

I find myself sometimes having trouble with the simple things in my faith. I worry about whether I am praying right, or if I am making a difference in any of the teens in lifeteen, or if I am truly doing what God wants me to do with my life.

An assignment for one of my classes this semester is to read a handful of children’s books each week and reflect on them. I thought it was a silly assignment to begin with, but I have ended up loving it. It allows me to step back into my childhood and remember the days when things seemed simple, when there was no stress about school, but only excitement in learning new things.

Reading these books has helped me find a new joy in simplicity. Learning shouldn’t be about memorization of theories, it should be about the adventure and excitement of discovering something new. My faith shouldn’t be about stressing over whether I’m doing everything right, it should be about the joy I feel when I am praying to God, singing to God, just sitting there and being with God.

I hope that this sense of joy, excitement, and wonder continues.

Catie's prayer: Jars of Clay's "Truce"

waiting around for some kind of peace.
hoping you'll find me in my needs

I feel like I spend much of my life doing this. I spend so much of my life just expecting God to come down and fix my restless heart, solve all my problems. But God doesn't work like that. God is always willing to help us with our problems but we have to be the ones to go to him.