Birthday prayer

September 2, 2006 General / Prayer

Anna turned 10 September 1. Our family is searching, and I want to encourage other families to search and with us discover new ways to be aware of God’s presence on occasions we have secularized in our culture. Birthdays are occasions that can be reimagined this way.

Here’s one of the prayers we said in the evening, taken from Robert Webber’s Book of Family Prayer:

On the occasion of a birthday

. . . Today is a special day in the life of our family, for on this day we celebrate the birth of Anna . . . let’s give thanks to God.

Father, we praise You for every perfect gift that comes from above. You have gifted us with the life of Anna. Now we bless you for her presence in our family. Grant, we pray You, that Your blessing rest upon her all the days of her life. Amen.

Greg Taylor

My wife, Jill, and I have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. We live in Broken Arrow and I preach for The Journey: a New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa (www.thejourneychurch.faith). I have a B.A. in Journalism and an M.Div. from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. Before coming to Tulsa, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, where I worked with The Zoe Group and Wineskins Magazine. From 1994-2001 we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where we worked with a church planting team, an experience that forever changed our lives. With Randy Harris, I co-authored Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount and you can learn about other books I've written at my web site, www.gregtaylor.org. My most recent book co-authored with Randy is Daring Faith: Meeting Jesus in the Book of John.

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