How regularly do you pray? Be honest here. Has prayer become as habitual for you as brushing your teeth? Or, do you have the best intentions to pray regularly, but sometimes just forget? Or, sometimes get busy and prayer falls to the side? Or, do you intend to pray at bedtime and fall asleep as […]

I started my professional career in IT consulting. What I loved most about it was jumping into a new company and quickly learning their business and processes. We almost never worked out of our home offices, but instead spent our weeks in our client’s office, working side-by-side with their teams. Each assignment was a new […]

“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” ~Matthew 19:26 Welcome to Prayer & Possibilities! I’m Kathryn Shirey, an ordinary girl following an extraordinary God. I hope you’ll join me here in learning to pray deeper, grow your faith, and step into God’s possibilities for your life. I invite you to […]

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also […]

I was cruising down a rural highway when suddenly the RV in front of me came to a complete stop. I might have seen a sign about construction and signalmen ahead, but didn’t think much about it until we stopped. This won’t take long. There’s not much traffic out today, I’m sure we’ll have our […]

When I look back over the past five or six years and think about the changes I’ve gone through in my life, the storm and trials, I can’t help but think of all the ways my Christian community helped me through them. Typically we think about the help a community provides during a trial – […]

Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns […]

The world seems to grow ever more expansive and yet ever smaller and known. Scientists continue to discover new stars, galaxies, and planets. New plants and animals are still being found. Yet, with the internet, we are ever more connected to each other and even the furthest ends of the earth are reachable. Does it […]

It’s almost the end of March!  A quarter of the way through this new year.  Seems like a good time to pause and reflect on how we’re doing on our goals for the year. What’s that?  You dumped your New Year’s resolutions last month?  Actually, I’m so terrible at following through on them that I […]

Transitions are filled with uncertainty. As we move through a change, we inevitably spend time ‘in between’. It’s a place of tension and uncertainty, but also a place of growth and enlightenment. When we turn back from our wandering and begin the process of redemption, we will find ourselves ‘in between’ as God prepares us […]

How do you do it all? Do you feel like you’re so busy that you’re constantly trying to balance a myriad of spinning plates, desperately hoping none will lose momentum and come crashing down? Are you overwhelmed by your busy? Seems like “busy” has become our go-to state of being, either by necessity or, often, […]

My daughter’s middle school musical was set in England, so the actors needed to learn British accents. To encourage the students to adopt an accent and get more comfortable using it, the teacher established days the actors had to speak only in British accents at school. On those days, they wore a button indicating they […]

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“I don’t want to take a nap! I don’t need one! I’m not even tired!” All this said through tears and yawns. One of those mornings and one of those moods. Why won’t he just give in and take a nap? It’s so easy to see the need from my perspective, but I know it’s […]