For many, the January landscape is barren. A wind from the north wraps around us like a boa constrictor, squeezing all the warmth away. The leaves are gone; tree limbs look like bare arms raised in prayerful supplication to God, stretching into a gray sky closing in with suffocating intent. ….

(View this reading and more resources for prayer at Daily Prayer: A resource of Forward Movement.)

This post appeared here first: Forward Day By Day – January 17, 2018

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