60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
If we can hope and if we can love, we can begin to change the world—starting with our own.
60 Seconds of Hope offers daily prayers and reflections, grounded in love and filled with hope.
Each episode offers a brief moment to pause, reflect, and return to what matters most.
Join Horace McMillon for a daily rhythm of hope, rooted in the love that holds us all.
Episodes
1309 episodes
A Prayer For Remembering The Good In The People We’re Fighting With
A Prayer For Remembering The Good In The People We’re Fighting With Loving God,When we’re fighting and locked in conflict with others,Help us remember what’s good about the peopl...
A Reflection For When We Forget The Good While We’re Fighting
A Reflection for When We Forget the Good While We’re Fighting Sometimes it’s hard to remember what’s good about someone when we’re fighting with them.Israel was in a period of all-out war when Sau...
A Prayer For When We Feel The Need To Explain Ourselves
A Prayer For When We Feel The Need To Explain Ourselves Loving God,When we feel the need to explain and justify ourselves,Help us trust our lives to speak for us before we say a ...
A Reflection For When We Feel The Need To Explain Ourselves
A Reflection For When We Feel The Need To Explain OurselvesSometimes we feel the need to explain ourselves, to justify our actions.But Ruth discovered that it is often completely unnecessary:
A Prayer For When Doing Right By Someone Makes Things Harder For Us
A Prayer For When Doing Right By Someone Makes Things Harder For UsLoving God,When doing right by someone else makes things harder for us,Help us trust that the love we give will be t...
A Reflection For When Doing Right By Someone Makes Things Harder For Us
A Reflection For When Doing Right By Someone Makes Things Harder For UsSometimes doing right by someone else makes things harder for ourselves.Naomi, having no sons left alive, really could have used t...
A Prayer For The Determination To Love
A Prayer For The Determination To Love Loving God,May the love we receive be the love we are bound and determined to live and give.Amen.Living In Love: God’s Lo...
A Reflection For When Love Asks Something of Us
A Reflection For When Love Asks Something Of UsSometimes people are so good to us that we are bound and determined to be good to them.Rahab risked her life to save the lives of the spies. She then aske...
A Prayer For When We Feel Out Of Place
A Prayer For When We Feel Out Of Place Loving God,When we feel out of place, like we don’t belong,let your steadfast love sustain and guide usuntil we find our ...
A Reflection For When It Feels Like We Don’t Belong
A Reflection For When It Feels Like We Don’t BelongSometimes we feel out of place, like we don’t belong.Yet the psalmist assures us that we—all of us—are God’s people, the sheep of God’s pasture, under...
A Prayer For When Better Feels A Long Way Off
A Prayer for When Better Feels a Long Way OffLoving God,When we’re discouraged because we don’t know when things will get better,Help us trust your steadfast love to carry us through....
A Reflection For When We Don’t Know When Things Will Get Better
A Reflection For When We Don’t Know When Things Will Get BetterSometimes we get discouraged because we don’t know how long it’s going to take for things to get better.The people of Israel had survived,...
A Prayer For When The World Has Broken Down
A Prayer For When The World Has Broken Down Loving God,When it feels like the world around us is descending into darkness, be our light.Let the hope of your steadfast love lead u...
A Reflection For When The World Has Broken Down
A Reflection For When The World Has Broken Down Sometimes it feels like our leaders have betrayed us and even our family and friends are unreliable.Micah 7 describes such a world and the pain of l...
A Prayer For When It Feels Like God Is Angry With Us
A Prayer For When It Feels Like God Is Angry With Us Loving God,When life feels so hard that we think you must be angry with us,Remind us of your steadfast love and fill us with ...
A Reflection For When It Feels Like God Is Angry With Us
A Reflection For When It Feels Like God Is Angry With Us Sometimes we hit patches so difficult that it feels like God must be angry with us.Like we’ve been “besieged and enveloped with bitterness ...
A Prayer For When We Only Care For Our Own
A Prayer For When We Only Care For Our Own Loving God,When we only care about our own,Help our love become as wide as yours, so that no one is left outside our circle....
A Reflection For When We Only Care About Our Own
A Reflection For When We Only Care For Our OwnSometimes we only care about the people in our circle.The psalmist declares that God is “abounding in steadfast love” and has compassion for all creation. ...
A Prayer For When Things Seem Hopeless
A Prayer For When Things Seem HopelessLoving God,When we are in situations that feel beyond hope,Remind us that your love forgives, your love heals, your love redeems,<...
A Reflection For Coming Back From The Abyss
A Reflection For Coming Back From The Abyss Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that feel beyond hope.But the psalmist reminds us that God “redeems our lives from the Pit, and crowns us with...
A Prayer For When We’re At Our Limit
A Prayer For When We’re At Our Limit Loving God,When we feel like we’ve reached our limit,Let your steadfast love carry us as we carry each other through.Amen.<...
A Reflection For When We’re Pushed To The Edge
A Reflection For When We’re Pushed To The EdgeSometimes we feel like we’ve reached our limit and we don’t know how we’re going to get back.The psalmist reminds us how great God’s steadfast love toward ...
A Prayer For When We’re Struggling In Silence
A Prayer For When We’re Struggling In Silence Loving God,When pride or shame keeps us silent,help us trust your love enough to reach out to you and each ot...