Monthly Archives: February 2025

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: All Creatures Hungry and Beautiful

Jesus, I’m sure You take great delight in the animals You created. But though we live in town. many pawprints in our snowy yard indicate we are running a nature preserve. I understand they are foraging for food during these cold, wintry months. But OMG, come spring, when our garden sprouts and flowers bloom—and their food supply increases—could You please tell them that if they’re looking for the Golden Corral, they’re at the wrong address.

Images by Walter Antonio Boeger, Dmitry Abramov, and rabzil from Pixabay.

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Very Old Valentines

Jesus, If You’d told us this back in the ’70s, we would have said, “You’re kidding, right? No way could love at 71 be better than at 21!” After all, in 1925, we’d be a saggy, baggy, gray-haired couple whose idea of a wild night out would be playing euchre after 10 o’clock. And, we, in our youthful wisdom, would have been right.

But OMG, You, who are Love personified, have poured Yourself into our lives for decades. And love just keeps getting better.

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: The Dirt About February

Jesus, I didn’t know February’s named after a Roman festival that emphasized cleaning rituals. Cleaning?! Ack, does this mean I have to clean my fridge? Under it too?!

Image by syklimkin from Pixabay

Instead, You say You want to scrub the cruddy corners of my life for me. And that Your service is free, already paid in full.

Sounds like the best deal in the world! Though, OMG, I have a feeling Mr. Clean …

has nothing on You!

Image by Gert Altmann from Pixabay