“I’m a little stressed all the time. Can you help me with my nerves.” I wrote in my prayer journal today. I reread the sentence I had typed. The devotional reading had been about the backwards nature of Jesus’ teachings in Luke 14. In it he tells people not to take the places of honor at banquets, but rather sit in the least honorable seats. And he tells people when they throw parties not to invite those who can repay you with another invite but to bring in the crippled and poor and then your reward would be in heaven. I think in my prayers sometimes I miss the bigger picture. Instead of focusing on what I can give to God, my prayers can often be centered on how I would like God to bles