“Flawed people need our prayer, ‘that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good....’ We need to pray urgently and persistently.” –Katharine E. Matchette, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Do you remember to be in prayer for those in ministry and leadership?

I must have been seven years old

the first time I heard the story

of Jesus calming the storm.

Being young and credulous,

I accepted it simply. The fishermen’s

amazement came to me

later in life. I, too, learned to question,

“Who then is this that even

the wind and the sea obey him?”

–Nancy Thomas, from “Meditation on Mark 4:35-41, Following an Oil Spill” in Close to the Ground