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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
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We’re Asked To Do What’s Wrong
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We’re Asked to Do Wrong Loving God, When we’re asked to do what we know is wrong, help us still find a way to do what’s…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Can’t Go Along With It
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Can’t Go Along With It Sometimes we’re asked to do something we know is wrong. Pharaoh ordered two midwives to kill…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Can’t Change Our Circumstances Yet
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Can’t Change Our Circumstances Yet Loving God, When we cannot yet change or escape our circumstances, help us refuse to…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Can’t Change Our Situation Yet
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Can’t Change Our Situation Yet Sometimes we can’t change or escape our situation—not yet—but we can still thrive in…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Wonder If The Cost Is Too Much
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Wonder If It’s Worth the Cost Loving God, When the commitment feels like it costs too much, help us trust that your…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection for When the Sacrifice Feels Like It Cost Too Much
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When the Sacrifice Feels Like It Cost Too Much Some things do not seem worth the sacrifice. There’s an old joke about a…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Don’t Feel Like Helping
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Don’t Feel Like Helping Loving God, Help us be cheerful when we are helping others. May our grudging spirits not become a…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Help People Grudgingly
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Help Grudgingly Sometimes we do the compassionate thing, but we do it grudgingly. True compassion isn’t just about…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Don’t Understand
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Don’t Understand Loving God, When we don’t understand, help us stop pretending and start asking. Let our desire to grow…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Stop Pretending To Know
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Stop Pretending to Know Sometimes we try to bluff our way through. Maybe because we don’t want to look bad. Maybe…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We’re Waiting For The World To Change
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We’re Waiting for the World to Change Loving God, while we watch and wait for the world to change, help us do our part, and…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We’re Waiting For The World To Change
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We’re Waiting for the World to Change Sometimes we wonder how long it will be until we get the world the prophets…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Struggle With Our Differences
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Struggle With Our Differences Loving God, When our differences feel impossible to live with, help us remember what we…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Struggle With Our Differences
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Struggle to Get Along Sometimes we wonder how we can possibly live well together with all of our differences. “How…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Ask God For More
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Ask God for More Loving God, When we ask you to bless us, help us bless others. When we ask you to forgive us, help us…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Gove What We Ask For
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Give What We Ask For What if we gave each other some of the things we ask God for? Like the psalmist, we ask God to…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Want Revenge
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Want Revenge Loving God, When we are focused on paying back the pain we have received, help us focus instead on the…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For We Don’t Need To Get Revenge Anymore
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Don’t Need To Get Even Anymore When people have done us wrong, we sometimes want to pay them back, make them feel the…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When People Misjudge Us
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When People Misjudge Us Loving God, When people make false assumptions about who we are, Help us stay centered. Rather than…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When People Make False Assumptions About Us
Send us Fan Mail When People Make False Assumptions About Us Sometimes people assume the worst about us. The disciples wanted to send the Canaanite woman away…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Think We Know Someone
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Think We Know Someone Loving God, When we assume we already know someone, help us listen for who they truly are instead…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Think We Know Someone
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Think We Know Someone Sometimes we dismiss people because of who we think they are. When a Canaanite woman came…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When Life Is Unfair
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When Life Is Unfair Loving God, When life is unfair, free us from our pain and anger. Focus us on becoming better instead of…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection for When Unfairness Makes Us Bitter
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When Unfairness Makes Us Bitter Sometimes life just isn’t fair. Jacob had twelve sons, but he loved one more than all the…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Think We’ve Made A Mistake
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Think We’ve Made A Mistake Loving God, when the storm rises around us, keep us from assuming we have taken the wrong…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Reflection For When We Think We’ve Made A Mistake
Send us Fan Mail A Reflection for When We Think We Made a Mistake Sometimes we think the problems we face are because someone has done something wrong. But the…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Need Time For Ourselves
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Need Time for Ourselves Loving God, When we feel the pressure to always be doing something for someone else, help us take…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Short Reflection | When We Take Time for Ourselves
Send us Fan Mail A Short Reflection | When We Take Time for Ourselves Sometimes we feel the pressure to always be doing something for someone else. Our service…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Feel Like We’re The Only Ones Trying
Send us Fan Mail When We Feel Like We’re the Only Ones Trying Sometimes we feel like we’re the only ones trying to do the right thing. The prophet Elijah felt…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When Fear Overtakes Our Faith
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When Fear Overtakes Our Faith Loving God, when our fear overtakes our faith, and we begin to sink, help us remember to call on…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When Fear Overtakes Our Faith
Send us Fan Mail When Fear Overtakes Our Faith Sometimes we’re doing just fine… until suddenly we’re not. Peter was brave enough to get out of the boat when…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Can’t Make Things Right
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Can’t Make Things Right Loving God, when we cannot make things right, help us make them better. Give us the wisdom to see…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Can’t Make Things Right
Send us Fan Mail “When We Can’t Make Things Right” Sometimes we can’t stop people from heading in the wrong direction. Joseph was his father’s favorite. He got…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When Our Struggles Leave Scars
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When Our Struggles Leave Scars Loving God, when our struggles leave scars, help us care for the wounds, even as we celebrate how…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When Our Struggles Leave Scars
Send us Fan Mail When Our Struggles Leave Scars Sometimes we find ourselves alone and in a lot of trouble. Jacob struggled all night. The struggle changed who…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer To Examine Our Own Hearts
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer to Examine Our Hearts Loving God, when we begin to compare ourselves to others, help us instead examine our own hearts. Center us in…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Compare Ourselves To Others
Send us Fan Mail When We Compare Ourselves to Others Sometimes we’re so busy measuring ourselves against everyone else. But when we stop comparing and…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We’re Tired of Waiting
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We’re Tired Of Waiting Loving God, when we are tired of waiting, help us be patient, and persevere, and not do anything that…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We’re Tired of Waiting
Send us Fan Mail When We’re Tired Of Waiting Sometimes we just get tired of waiting, even when we believe, “you give us our food in due season.” — from Psalm…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Fear There Won’t Be Enough
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Fear There Won’t Be Enough Loving God, when we worry there won’t be enough for everyone, help us share generously what we…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Fear There Won’t Be Enough
Send us Fan Mail When We Fear There Won’t Be Enough Sometimes it feels like there just isn’t enough. And we accept the idea that some will have while others…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Feel We Are Unable To Help
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Feel Unable To Help Loving God, when we don’t feel like we have enough to make a difference, help us still do what we…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Don’t Feel Able To Help
Send us Fan Mail When We Don’t Feel Able To Help Sometimes it’s hard for us to imagine helping someone else when we’re barely getting by ourselves. The…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Have Hard Decisions
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Have Hard Decisions Loving God, when our problems are big and our choices are hard, give us wisdom and understanding to…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Have Hard Decisions To Make
Send us Fan Mail When We Have Hard Decisions to Make When our problems are hard and the solutions are not easy, like Solomon, let us pray for “an understanding…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For A Different Future
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For A Different Future Loving God, When we hope for a better future for ourselves and the world, help us want it enough to make the…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Want A Different Future
Send us Fan Mail When We Want a Different Future Sometimes we hope for a different future without choosing a different path. But how do we make those choices?…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When Our Problems Feel So Big
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When The Problems Feel So Big Loving God, When we are discouraged because the problems are so big, help us trust that our small…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Wonder If We Can Make A Difference
Send us Fan Mail When We Wonder If We Can Make A Difference Sometimes we wonder if anything we do can actually make a difference. The Gospel reminds us that…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Have No Words
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Have No Words Loving God, When we have no words, hear our hearts. When we have no sight, give us light. Help us be…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Don’t Know How To Pray
Send us Fan Mail When We Don’t Know How To Pray Sometimes things get so difficult and so complicated that “we do not know how to pray.” — from Romans 8:26 Yet…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We Want To Get Better
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Want To Get Better Loving God, When we want to grow, help us see ourselves fully instead of comparing ourselves to…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We Want To Get Better
Send us Fan Mail When We Want To Get Better Sometimes when we want to get better, we begin by taking an honest look at ourselves. “Search me, O God, and know…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When Fear Stops Us
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When Fear Stops Us Loving God, When fear stops us from moving forward, Help us distinguish what is real from what we imagine…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When Fear Stops Us
Send us Fan Mail When Fear Stops Us Sometimes we fear the worst and refuse to try. Romans reminds us that we “did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When We’re Hurting
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When We Are Hurting Loving God, When we are hurting, Help us endure the pain that leads to new life and new possibilities. Help…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When We’re Tired Of Hurting
Send us Fan Mail When We Are Tired of Hurting Sometimes we get tired of hurting. The pain is real, and the danger is too. But some kinds of pain lead to life…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For When The Right Things Still Go Wrong
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For When the Right Things Still Go Wrong Loving God, When we’re disappointed because doing the right things has still gone wrong…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
When The Right Things Still Go Wrong
Send us Fan Mail When the Right Things Still Go Wrong Sometimes we do the right things, and get the wrong results. “So when the plants came up and bore grain…
- 60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon
A Prayer For Deeper Conversations
Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for Deeper Conversations Loving God, When we are busy, help us make time for deeper conversations. Help us ask good questions. Give…