Try It Tuesday: Every Moment Holy

Have you ever considered what the advice to pray without ceasing actually looks like in your daily life? A lifestyle of prayer is one that invites the divine into every moment of your life and thus makes every moment of your life a holy moment full of the potential to meet the Lord. 

Author Douglas McKelvey has written Every Moment Holy—a book of litanies that invite the reader to pray before, during, and after the trivial and the important activities of life. From changing a baby’s diaper, to preparing a meal, to grieving a loved one, or for the morning before a medical procedure, the litanies (prayers) contained in this book offer words when I as the pray-er have no words. 

I have come to read a paragraph from “A Liturgy Before Taking the Stage” before every webinar I do. It says,

“Take this tiny heap of my talents and my brokenness alike,

tis jumble of what is best and worst in me,

And meld it to the greater work of your Spirit,

Using each facet as you will, so that,

Even as sunlight coursing through a cracked prism,

Your grace might somehow be revealed upon this stage

in whatever gloried

and peculiar patterns

You have fashioned me to display.

Amen.”

I have the soft cover “pocket” version which is perfect for adding to my stack of daily readings and devotional books. I highly recommend Every Moment Holy as a mainstay in your devotional collection.