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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?!

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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!

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OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Is Christmas Really Done?

O Lord, You know I suffered when Hubby said, “We have to take down this tree before it goes bald.” Before long — maybe not until Valentine’s Day? — we’ll store the evergreens, the toy village, and the manger scene. I’ll fuss over the whole process like a sulky six-year-old.

But OMG, I thank You that Christmas is never over. Emmanuel, whose name means “God with us,” can’t be shut in a closet or stuck in the garage. Jesus walks my world and yours, seeking whom He can bless.

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#January #alwaysChristmas #JesusBFF

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Jesus, You Do Marriage Miracles

OMG, thank You for our marriage of 50 years! Please help us, whether dining in uptown restaurants and cheering winning ball teams — or shoveling snow and cleaning bathrooms — to celebrate life together every day!

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Happy Birthday, Jesus!

O Lord, thank You for four generations of a family who gathered to celebrate You with gifts, yummy food and a wonderfully in-tune carol singalong. OMG, there’s nothing like partying together with You!

    

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Room in This Inn

O Lord, if we add one more gift to the tree, we won’t be able to sit in the living room. If we add more food to the fridge, it may fall through the kitchen floor. Clean sheets and sleeping bags await the four generations who soon will arrive. But OMG, please come on in! The Guest of Honor, You are so very, very welcome.

Merry Christmas from the Phillipses!

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Good Thing You Still Love Us, Lord

Jesus, has it really been 60 years since Mom dragged us from backyard fun and sandbox joys to endure spit-on-kleenex baths for this photo? And 25 years since all five siblings gathered in one place. Thank You, Lord for rowdy, precious times together. Some of our descendants forced us to behave for the camera, but OMG, they knew better than to try the spit-bath thing.

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OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Friendly Fire

Jesus, I love the words Your poet-musician King David wrote long ago: “How good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity.” OMG, in an age in which neighbors ignore, fight and sue each other, how special when ours gathered to chat, laugh and share s’mores over backyard campfires!

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Jesus Loves the Little Children–and Oldies Too

O Lord, You know we finally relegated our ancient phones, along with our landline, to the trash. OMG, I’m so glad You and Your love are the same as when I gabbed on the 1967 Princess Phone my parents unwisely allowed in my bedroom. 

   

OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Francine Didn’t Get Me

Jesus, so glad You traveled with me to Louisiana, where I was blown away by an excellent writing conference in New Orleans; bayous, sugar cane fields and shrimp po’ boys in Cajun country; and fun times with piney woods cousins. And thank You that, despite my superpower for getting lost, I kept one step ahead of the hurricane … mostly.

  

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OMG, It’s Monday! Prayer: Shhhh, Already!

Jesus, You Know our washer roars like a rocket launch during its spin cycle.

Our microwave’s “done” beep sounds like a threefold BLEEP.

Our car’s alarm probably will never go off amid a theft; no, it brays like a dinosaur-sized donkey whenever my husband dares pull a quarter from his pocket.

OMG, how can I be still and know You

when my world won’t shut up?