1. Honest confession brings us into the fatherly care of God where we are always greeted with grace, mercy, peace, love, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
  2. While midnight might seem long, the mercy of God assures us that the morning will come.
  3. A pastor is sent to proclaim the unconditional grace of God, reminding us again and again that it is our Heavenly Father who reaches out to us in love through his Christ-won forgiveness, and not the other way around.
  4. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  5. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  6. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  7. God cares about our real life where we actually are. He is present in the everyday.
  8. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  9. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  10. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  11. Jesus cries on the cross for us. He suffers and cries and dies in our place. He is forsaken by his father so we don’t have to be.
  12. As I look back, I choose to remember her as a soul redeemed by Christ.