From time to time, we create prayer guides, reflection exercises, and other resources to help you connect more deeply with God in the midst of the events and challenges of life. Most of them we’re able to make available to you at no charge; we simply ask for your email address in order to download the resource. For a few of them (which are intended more for use at the congregational or small-group level), we ask for a donation on a pay-as-you-can basis.
Free Resources
Writing a Lament
Lament—giving voice to our pain and sorrow in prayer—is a deeply faithful practice. But it isn’t always easy to do. This resource guides you through the process of writing and praying your own lament.
Lectio Divina - Reading Scripture Reflectively
Lectio divina (or “sacred reading”) is a prayerful way of reflecting on scripture, listening for how God may want to speak personally to you through it. This resource provides a simple guide to the practice of lectio divina.
Visio Divina -
The beauty and creativity of art can open our hearts to engage with God in ways that written words can’t. Visio Divina (or “sacred seeing”) is a practice that uses visual art as an invitation to prayer. This resource provides a simple guide to the practice of visio divina.
Congregational & Small-Group Resources
Journeying with God through Grief
Grief can be painful. In the midst of that pain we also find that God can do tremendous healing, growing, and transformational work in our hearts. We created Journeying with God through Grief to help people open themselves to that work.
While you can certainly use these prayer guides individually, we wrote them with a congregational or small-group context in mind. There are two versions of Journeying with God through Grief: a general guide, for those walking through a variety of types of grief; and one specifically for churches going through periods of transition.
The prayer guides are available for download below. The suggested donation is $5 per copy that you will reproduce or distribute. However, we offer these on a pay-as-you can model. If you can pay $5 per copy, great. If you can pay less than that, or even nothing, that’s just fine. And if you can pay more than $5 per copy, that’s a generous gift to others. If you would like to make a donation, go here to make a payment through our parent organization, Novo. Just select “RT - OpenAir” from the drop-down menu, and enter “grief guide” in the “Payment for” box. Then simply download the prayer guide you want below.