Gayle Tabor

Month: January 2026

How to Pray When the World Is Burning Down

2026/01/09 Gayle 0

The world feels like it’s burning down around us – things we have believed were set in stone, immovable, impenetrable, have changed in rapid times. Things like governmental checks and balances, like the existence of safety nets we have come to count on – social programs, foreign aid, the greater good, liberty for ALL, even the pursuit of happiness. WOW! Have things changed in a year – only a year. This morning a friend asked:  I know that God understands what comes from our heart, even when it sounds a bit mangled…but I wonder…how do we pray about this? My words that are most heartfelt would be along the lines of “Dear God, please save us from this evil spineless, d***less POS and all of The rest of the story

Perhaps you were created for such a time as this

Choosing a Word for 2026 (and Letting It Choose You)

2026/01/01 Gayle 0

For several years now—at least back to around 2008—I’ve chosen a word to guide my year. Not a resolution.Not a checklist.Just a single word. It’s a practice that really took shape for me around 2012, when my Sunday school class read My One Word by Mike Ashcraft together. Ashcraft describes the purpose of choosing one word simply and beautifully: to help people walk with God. His book offers a kind of manual—choose a word, pair it with a scripture, meditate on it, and return to it again and again as the year unfolds. That framework stuck with me. Over the years, I’ve chosen words like heal, laugh, yes, and energy. Some of those words shaped entire seasons of my life. Others worked more quietly, doing The rest of the story