Dear Pastor Weedon,

Your article has left me in tears this morning, thinking of all my brothers and sisters in Christ praying and reading along with me every morning. Thank you!

We've had the Treasury since it was first published. We bought them for our sons' families too. But ours mostly sat unused on the bookshelf. Back in January of this year we were listening to one of Pastor Jonathan Fisk's sermons and he recommended setting a timer for 10 minutes of morning prayer and also reading a proverb each day and writing about it. I've always had a hard time being consistent with regular prayer, so I decided to give it a try, using the motivation of not doing anything else online until I had completed my prayer and Proverbs time. This has become such a blessing in my life.

I don't always know what to write about the proverb, so I started reading commentaries and articles I found online. I found it hard sometimes to fill the whole ten minutes with prayer, so I started writing down prayers that I found in the commentaries and I also clipped prayers from our church bulletin to guide me on those days. A few months ago I felt the need for more prayers and remembered the Treasury of Daily Prayer sitting on the shelf. At first I just went through some of the prayers in the back. Then, after several days of this, I thought I would read the prayer for each weekday. Then over time I got curious about the prayer for each date. Before I knew it, I was also reading the Psalm and the hymn. Not being a life-long Lutheran, there were many hymns that I was unfamiliar with, so I started looking them up on YouTube and singing the whole hymn a time or two along with different videos. I kept resisting reading the other readings, but got interested in the writing for each day. I thought that someday I would include the readings, and started glancing at the topic headers and thinking about what I knew about that section. One morning I noticed that the writing was based on one of the readings, so I read it. This was shortly after the first Sunday in the church year. It came to me that there wouldn't be a more suitable time to add the readings. Over the course of this year I have gone from 15 or so minutes in prayer and study to around an hour.

All this to say that I have come to have such an appreciation for the TDP and those who put it together. A lady in CA noticed that I had mentioned it in an Instagram post and reached out to me since she also uses it. I liked the thought that we were using the same resource. Now you have brought it home to me that there are many, many of us approaching the throne with the aid of this treasury.

I got here this morning looking for illumination on the Prayer on Wednesday. Isn't it wonderful to think that the Holy Spirit guides our Google searches too?