Here I Am, Lord: Stories, Prayers, and Inspiration for Teens and the Adults in Their Lives

by Pratt, Lonni Collins; Homan, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780879737054
• ISBN10: 0879737050
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Summary

They may not admit it, but teens pray. They pray about big things like world hunger and war and personal things like their upcoming math test. They ask God hard questions and they cry tears only God sees. Their prayer is as real, as tough, and as fragile as they are.

Author Biography

Lonni Collins Pratt has twenty-five years of experience in youth ministry Father Daniel Homan, O.S.B., is Prior Major of St. Benedict Monastery in Oxford, Michigan

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(1)
About This Book: A Note to Teens	10	(2)
About This Book: A Note to Parents, Pastors, Teachers, and Youth Ministers	12	(3)
All Your Strength	15	(3)
One Person	18	(4)
What Awesome Really Means	22	(4)
What Kind of Power Does God Have?	26	(4)
No Struggle, No Flight	30	(3)
Love Letters	33	(4)
What Do People Need?	37	(3)
The Winds of God's Will	40	(3)
Can You Be Too Positive?	43	(4)
Shivering Magic	47	(4)
The Way Home	51	(3)
Questionable Evidence	54	(3)
Tell It Like It Is	57	(4)
God Wearing Skin	61	(3)
Hypocrites in Church	64	(4)
Desert Graffiti	68	(4)
Humble Like a Sparrow	72	(3)
Growing Pains	75	(3)
First Class All the Way to the Wrong Place	78	(3)
Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf	81	(4)
How to Be Great	85	(3)
Living in the Land of Violence	88	(4)
What My Heart Already Knowns	92	(3)
Face the Music	95	(4)
Loving Like Ethel	99	(4)
Chicken Soup for the Soul Is Not Enough	103	(3)
What Arthur Miller Wanted to Tell Marilyn Monroe	106	(4)
Rock `n' Roll: The Story of Redemption?	110	(3)
The Perils of Communication	113	(3)
Haunted by Christ	116	(3)
Without Words	119	(3)
Really Loving	122	(3)
Selling Ourselves	125	(4)
To Judge Or Not to Judge	129	(4)
The Question Is Why	133	(4)
Living with a Conscience	137	(4)
Better Than You Know	141	(4)
What's Real, What's Not?	145	(3)
Good Advice	148	(4)
The Weird Gift of Family	152	(4)
I'm Only Human (Not That There's Anything Wrong with That)	156	(3)
Star Thrower	159	(4)
How Dare You Love Yourself?	163	(3)
Can It Be Beautiful Because It's Broken?	166	(4)
Going Through the Motions	170	(3)
How Many Worlds Can You Live In?	173	(4)
Acting Justly When It's Not Easy	177	(4)
Where the Crowed Leads You	181	(4)
Don't Kick the Doneky	185	(3)
Crosses on a Hill	188	(4)
Theme Index	192