When You Don't Know What to Pray :: Kayla Craig [Ep 344]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As Kayla Craig sat in the hospital watching her daughter have a machine breath for her, she struggled to find the words to pray. In that difficult time in her family’s life, she learned about the power of liturgies which are scripted prayers from scripture. The more she turned to these powerful prayers prayed by Christians from all over the world, the less alone Kayla felt.
Years later, Kayla has created a book with modern liturgies for parents with more than 100 prayers to voice when words are hard to find.
“The book of prayers that I have created are just simply prayers that you can borrow, prayers that can become your own. The prayers of another can comfort us and can lift our arms up and we can't lift our arms up. If you don't have the words to pray, take mine.”
From everyday struggles like helping your child find friends or thrive in school to larger issues like praying for a brighter world rooted in peace and truth, these pleas and petitions act as a gentle guide, reminding us that while our words may fail, God never does.
Stay tuned for about 20 minutes in when Kayla prays a powerful prayer over all of us weary parents! I think you are going to love learning more about liturgies and breath prayers from Kayla. I hope this is just one more tool in your prayer tool belt -- we certainly need all we can get!
Connect with Kayla:
- Website: kaylacraig.com
- Podcast: Upside Down Podcast
- Facebook: facebook.com/kaylacraigwriter
- Instagram: @kayla_craig & @liturgiesforparents
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:16.8 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:23.0 | And in this episode number 344 I am welcoming to the show Kayla Craig. |
| 0:30.0 | The book of prayers that I have created are just simply prayers that you can borrow, prayers |
| 0:37.4 | that can become your home. |
| 0:40.8 | And so I kept, you know, there's something so beautiful about so many different types |
| 0:45.6 | of prayer. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.6 | Just simply sitting and being still and listening can be so transformational and frustrating |
| 0:52.8 | sometimes, right? |
| 0:53.8 | But can be really, really a powerful form of prayer. |
| 1:00.2 | There's also, you know, just to that kind of in the moment, praying out of the deep |
| 1:06.4 | wells of your heart and that's beautiful too. |
| 1:09.3 | But you know, for honest with each other, there are moments where we just don't have those |
| 1:13.8 | words. |
| 1:14.8 | And the prayers of another can comfort us and can lift our arms up and we can't lift our |
| 1:21.1 | arms up and you know, say you don't have the words to pray, take mine. |
| 1:25.2 | And so once I heard, the liturgy is the prayer of the people and I just find that so comforting. |
| 1:34.0 | As I pray, I know somebody has gone through this. |
| 1:38.2 | I'm not the first person to experience, you know, whatever I'm going through. |
| 1:44.1 | Maybe somebody's even praying was right now. |
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