Pause+Pray

Evaluate your daily routine. What gets the most attention? If you find you don’t have time for prayer or service to others, make the time by cutting out something else.

The late congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) was known for his lifetime work fighting racism through his words calling people to make, “good trouble, necessary trouble.” A freedom fighter deeply inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis ...

Jesus was a person who valued rest and had clear boundaries, yet he also suffered immensely and willingly on behalf of others. What does his example tell us about the responsibility to steward our lives and time well?

There’s no such thing as a “private” decision or “yes” simply because of the ripple effect of everyone around and yet to come. Your “yes” to help someone today can touch everyone else whom that person encounters today too.

A stray reminder can lead us to relive a long-ago injury—one received, one given. It's humbling to recall that we acted or reacted in anger, with ugliness, that we even may hold a grudging memory today.

No matter how much we practice patience, no matter how much we pray, sometimes the morning arrives when we must take the action we’ve been contemplating, and it can be scary. No matter our choices, God will give us the ...