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"Waiting is never wasted when God is in it."

Five days a week, Dr. Lael writes the word she needed on her own hardest days — short enough to read with your coffee, honest enough to sit with all day.

A Place to Land While You're Still Waiting

PRAYER AND PERSPECTIVE: THE BLOG

Prayer & Perspective

By Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville Gratitude does not deny reality. Gratitude reframes it in the light of God’s faithfulness. It gives us a different way to see what we are walking through, especially when life feels shadowed or stretched thin. True gratitude often grows in places where answers are delayed, resources feel limited, and […]

Gratitude in the Dark Places

Prayer & Perspective