Answering Evil with Prayer

What is a profound experience that you've had answering evil with prayer?  How do you face it with courage and light?  I was struck by the following Mark Twain quote today: "But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"

Travel

What is something surprising you learned about yourself or your faith while away from what you normally consider "home"?  Where did you go?  How did the location play a part in this? 

Mary

There are many people named Mary that play an important role in the Bible.  Which most resonates with you in your life?  Do you identify with one? Is there a non-Biblical Mary in your life who is special to you?  Write about Mary today.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Eleanor Roosevelt has a few quotes about doing the thing that scares you and that it gains you courage and confidence (to greatly paraphrase two very amazing quotes of hers).  Today, write about risks you can take to make the world a better place.  They can be large or small.  Or perhaps they can seem small to an observer, but be large to you.  This is a great prompt to do a freewrite on: write for 10 minutes without stopping or editing yourself and see what comes out.  Then take the good stuff out of that and make something out of it : )

All God's Creatures...

Write about the glimpses of God you've seen in or through animals.

This Little Light of Mine

What does your "light" look like, feel like - how can you identify that it is 'your' light - or is it yours?  Can you personify it as a separate entity - a muse that acompanies you or the Holy Spirit? What is the essence of 'you-ness' that you think might stay with your soul?

Summer Weekly Writing Challenge!

Describe what kind of [either] superpower or spiritual gift you have or would like to have.  Can you be a superhero with a spiritual gift instead of a superpower?  What would that be like?