A daily prayer for April 4, 2020.

These are strange and difficult days. Our society, our church and our world are simultaneously searching for answers, looking for how best to cope with all the frightening uncertainty increasingly emerging each day. This is not the first time our world has been confront by a crisis.

A daily prayer for April 3, 2020.

This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday, on which we mark the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, where he would be crucified. It is a strange and bittersweet Sunday because it acknowledges the worship and praise of Jesus Christ, even as it anticipates his death at the hands of Rome and religious leadership.

I learned a few years ago that one of the most effective ways to get through a hard time in life, at least in my experience, is the practice of gratitude. This attitude was instilled in me at an early age, growing up on the mission field in Brazil, South America with my parents.

A daily prayer for April 2, 2020.