Children Build the Future
Shannon K. Evans
February 18, 2026
Our children need us to help them become the people we imagine when we dream of their future.
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Shannon K. Evans
Shannon K. Evans is the author of Embracing Weakness, Rewilding Motherhood, and Luminous: A 30-Day Journal for Accepting Your Body, Honoring Your Soul, and Finding Your Joy. She and her family make their home in central Iowa.
Extend Compassion
Shannon K. Evans
December 6, 2025
We are often our own worst critics, failing to extend compassion to ourselves when we would easily do so for a loved one. Use this prayer to find your center within God’s compassionate embrace.
Praying with Our Bodies
Shannon K. Evans
November 23, 2025
Although our culture separates body and spirit, the very incarnation of Jesus speaks to a higher reality.
Embracing Our Bodies
Shannon K. Evans
October 17, 2025
Even as we wrestle with the realities of living in a human body—illness, aging, disability, declining health—we also have the opportunity to embrace our bodies as a means of experiencing God in the material world.
Work for Greater Equality
Shannon K. Evans
July 19, 2025
Racism is a deeply rooted malady in every society in the world and must be uprooted with intentionality and awareness. May this prayer aid you in your anti-racism work to be a better disciple of Jesus.
Give Me Patience
Shannon K. Evans
May 3, 2025
Patience is not simply a trait that one either does or does not possess; patience is a virtue that one chooses to develop.
Honoring Creation
Shannon K. Evans
April 15, 2025
Francis taught that in God we are connected to the earth and all created things. In the spiritual life we’re called to live attuned to this interdependence.