An evening devotional with pastors Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman. Today’s topic: relationships

Here is the prayer that Jonathan read:

Our little lives, our big problems – these we place upon your altar! The quietness in your temple of silence again and again rebuffs us: for some there is no discipline to hold them steady in the waiting, and the minds reject the noiseless invasion of your spirit. For some there is no will to offer what is central in the thoughts- the confusion is so manifest, there is no starting place to take hold. For some the evils of the world tear down all concentrations and scatter the focus of the high resolves. We do not know how to do what we know to do. We do not know how to be what we know to be. Our little lives, our big problems – these we place upon your altar! Pour out upon us whatever our spirits need the shock o, of life, of release that we may find strength for these days – courage and hope for tomorrow. In confidence we rest in your sustaining race which makes possible triumph in defeat, gain in loss, and love in hate. We rejoice this day to say: Our little lives, our big problems – these we place upon your altar!

- Howard Thurman (1899-1981)

Here are some of the links mentioned:

Domestic Abuse Hotline - RI

Domestic Abuse Hotline - MA

For Family Games:

Jackbox

Drawphone