Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. This is the Jesus Prayer, known and prayed most commonly in the Orthodox Church (though as one monk in the book points out, Jesus doesn’t pray this prayer — we pray this prayer to Jesus.) It’s very like the prayer of the tax…

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In the midst of a busy week and too many stories of brokenness and pain and loss, I still found many many gifts to count today. 204. Reconnecting with old friends 205. The unexpected encouragement heard at the memorial service 206. Examples of clinging to God’s faithfulness in the face of the ugliness of sin…

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A couple of weeks ago, I noticed many of the people I follow on Twitter talking about something called five-minute Friday. I discovered that Lisa-Jo, or The Gypsy Mama, hosts a writing theme every Friday in which you write for 5 minutes flat just for the love of the written word — no editing or…

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photo © 2010 Mike Hipp | more info (via: Wylio) Thursdays are usually FaithJam days around here. Bonnie, at the Faith Barista, hosts the Faith Jam and sends out a writing prompt for each week. This week’s is “joy.” Piece of cake, right? I mean, my blog name is “Joy in this Journey,” and my…

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This post is just for fun! I’m writing from Write On Edge’s weekly memoir writing prompt, RemembeRED. It’s my first time attempting memoir so let me know what you think! The assignment was to think of a sound or a smell that reminds you of something from your past and write a post about that…

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