Tag: Prayer

For this week’s spiritual blog, I want to talk about the power of intercessory prayer. Over the past two months, a couple of families in our church faced situations where loved ones were/are in life-or-death situations and they reached out to their church family requesting prayer. If you&rs...

Once upon a time, I was a church youth worker. And part of my job, of course, was to convince young people to join the church’s youth group. So, with great evangelistic fervor, I threw myself into the task, inviting kids from all over the neighborhood, including the young man standing in front...

In every Hindu home, you will find a small home altar or mandir for the proper worship of the home’s murtis. A murti is an embodiment of a Hindu god in any form which is usually a statue of the god or goddesses. Although, we do believe that God resides in anything you are surrounded with, we d...

While the above verse shows how critical the Salat is for our souls, we can and should pray to or at least keep God in mind as much as possible; only God has any power in the universe. However, without that knowledge it appears that we and others have power. A separate story gives a number o...

I’m Muslim and I don’t pray 5 times a day. Well, at least I didn’t. It isn’t because of a weakness of faith. I have a very strong sense of spirituality, Muslim identity, and an unwavering belief in God’s will and wisdom. It isn’t because I’m in envir...

Imagine reading the libretto of La Boheme out loud in the original Italian without knowing the language. You’d be bored to tears. With an English translation, you would at least understand the plot. But there’d be no magic there. The plot is a formulaic bit of melodrama. The words aren&r...

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My artistic expression of Refugia — Life Emerging from Destruction depicts the resurgence of plant life amidst a devastated landscape. The green plants emerging from the ground symbolize life finding its way back into an environment that has undergone some form of destruction or decay, in this...

I was raised Catholic. Very Catholic. I was even an altar boy or server, depending on where you are in the world. My mum is still an Eucharistic minister, i.e., at mass, she gives out the host. I went to church every Sunday, and in primary school, we had to go to the odd extra mass, and in secondary...