Thank you for joining us for Friday Favorites! Each week, Prasanta Verma and I round up our favorite links related to prayer, spirituality, and writing. We hope it will enrich your life and help you to find the best the web has to offer.

Read, enjoy, and be blessed.

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The Lord is My Everything: Psalm 23 in the Letter E via April Yamasaki (a paraphrase of a beloved psalm focused on the letter E… and other versions with different letters of the alphabet; what a neat exercise!)

How do we say goodbye? via The Red Hand Files (on regret, the past, and the privilege of saying goodbye)

Place and Pilgrimage via Lisa Colón DeLay (on this Spark My Muse podcast episode, Lisa and I talk about the resurgence of pilgrimage and a special event we’re planning for June 2020)

The Wonder Years Gathering (heads-up on two conferences in 2020 focusing on Christian spiritual formation for midlife women)

Self-Help for Fellow Refugees via Li-Young Lee (heart-stopping poetry)

The Hyphen Affair via Seth Maxon (why grammar nerds keep getting so furious with the Associated Press)

7 Common Mistakes in First-Time Memoir via Jessi Rita Hoffman (writing advice from a developmental book editor)