Based in the desert of West Texas, Amara Bratcher is a full-time student minister who also writes, takes pictures and volunteers with at-risk children. She has written a book entitled The Bridge That Love Built for adopted kids who have gaps in the early years of their lives. She likes her coffee French Pressed and wears her hair curly 365 days a year. 

Let the Dawn Come

Amara Bratcher

And now we spread everything out before you:
our cares, that you may care for us;
our fears, that you may quiet them;
our hopes and desires, that not our will, but your good will may be done;
our sins, that you may forgive them;
our thoughts and yearnings, that you may cleanse them;
our entire life in this time, that you may guide it toward the resurrection of all flesh and eternal life.

- Karl Barth, Fifty Prayers, excerpt from “Let the Dawn Come”

winter

twenty years old