For prayer circles, small groups and the people in them
You sit down to write, and nothing comes.
It was never about discipline. A blank page asks you to decide what matters before you have written a word, at six in the morning, and that is where it stops.
Innerfolk sends one question each morning, written by a person, chosen for what you are walking through. A few lines are enough. A year later your answers come back as a book.
Start Your 7 Days Read the questions first
$99 a year, or $249 with the book printed and mailed. Nothing is charged for seven days.
Today's question
What do you hope is true but cannot prove?
Start anywhere.
Sometimes the hardest part of prayer is not your faith. It is your words. You sit down, and your mind goes blank.
A prayer journal guide, describing the problem better than we couldEvery prayer journal on the shelf solves this the same way: printed prompts, the same ones for everybody, the same ones every year. They help. They are also the reason so many of them are half full.
A question that arrives knowing what season you are in is a different thing from a prompt on page 46.
Plainly
Innerfolk is not a devotional.
We are not going to hand you scripture you have already chosen for yourself, or write a prayer in your voice. Innerfolk is the other half: the question that gets you writing, and the book at the end of the year.
What you will not find here
- No scripture selections
- No written prayers
- No devotional readings
- No teaching, and no theology
- Nothing generated by a machine
What you will
- One question each morning, written and approved by a person
- Chosen for the season you said you were in
- A private journal nobody else can read
- Your earlier answers, returning months later
- A year of it, bound into a book
Which means it sits beside whatever you already use. Your Bible, your devotional, your notebook. Innerfolk is the part that asks.
Why write any of it down
Remember what you were asking for.
Think back five years. You can probably remember where you were, who you were sitting with on a Sunday, and the big things that happened that year.
Now try to remember what you were praying about. Not the one thing you would tell somebody about — the ordinary asking. The thing you brought up every week for four months and have not thought about since.
Most of us cannot. Remembering that you prayed is not the same as remembering what you prayed, and the difference is the part that would have told you something.
A few lines are enough. What you asked for. What you were afraid to ask for. What you thought you needed in March that you did not want by August.
You do not need a remarkable day or a lesson learned. Innerfolk gives you a question to begin with.
You wrote, seven months ago
“Still asking about the same thing. I think I am asking for the wrong one.”
Still true?
Months later, an answer you wrote comes back and asks whether it still holds. That is the part a notebook cannot do — and the part that makes a year of writing worth more than the sum of its mornings.
At the end of the year
A record of what you asked for, and what came.
Prayer journals have always been kept for one reason: so that later you can look back and see what was answered. That is hard to do with three notebooks and a phone.
A year after you start, everything you wrote is typeset and bound into an edition of your own — the question above each answer, the date you wrote it, and a cover made from the days you showed up. Then the next year begins in the same journal, with everything you have written still in it.
MAKE ONE
Every dot is a day of your year.
The ones in color are the days you wrote. The bigger ones are the days you wrote more. Lines join the days that came close together.
Nobody designs this. It is drawn from your own year, once that year is over — so a year with gaps in it looks like a year with gaps in it. Drag the slider and watch one happen.
VOLUME I
A day you wrote. The larger it is, the more you wrote that day.
A day you did not. They stay on the cover.
Six of them, as they arrive
The questions do not flatter you.
They are not written to produce a tidy answer. Most mornings you will write four lines. Some mornings a question will sit with you all day.
You pick up to three when you start, and change them whenever the season does. Faith is one of fifteen, not the only one — a week that is mostly about money is still a week you are living.
Today's question
What have you stopped arguing about?
A few lines are enough.
One a morning, chosen for the season you said you were in. If it is not the right morning for it, you skip it and the next one comes tomorrow.
What do you hope is true but cannot prove?
What have you stopped arguing about?
What do you do on the days nothing means much?
Who taught you what was right, and what have you quietly stopped agreeing with?
What have you forgiven that surprised you?
What is worth doing even if nobody notices?
Three hundred more are free to read, whether or not you ever join.
If your group joins together
Everybody writes. Nobody reads anybody else.
Each person gets their own question
Chosen for the season they said they were in, not for the group. Two people in the same circle will often be asked different things on the same morning.
What you write stays yours
Every journal is a private file of its own. Nobody in your group sees it, and nobody at Innerfolk reads it for research, marketing or curiosity.
Bring the question to the room
Several groups use it this way: everyone answers alone during the week, and whoever wants to reads theirs aloud when you meet. The question does the work of an agenda.
What we do not have yet
There is no group account, no shared feed and no leader's view. If your circle needs those, say so — we would rather build the right thing than tell you it already exists.
A year from now, you will have this year in your own words.
What you asked for. What you were afraid of. What you could not quite say. You do not have to have it worked out to write it down.
Start Your 7 Days Or the edition, $249
Nothing is charged for seven days. Cancel by email in those seven days and nobody asks why.
A private journal that asks the questions,
and ends
in a book.
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A private journal. Not therapy, and not a crisis service.