The best names for your three practices
For the current series, I recommend:
Umbrella name
The Three Abiding Prayers
or:
Three Ways of Abiding with Jesus
Individual categories
- Personal Abiding Prayer
“Jesus, may I abide.” - Shared Abiding Prayer
“Jesus, may we abide.” - Mutual Abiding Prayer
“Jesus, abide in me, and teach me to abide in You.”
These names are clear, meaningful, and spiritually accurate.
Strongest website naming options
Ranked from strongest to more specialized:
- Abiding Prayers
- Short Abiding Prayers
- Jesus Abiding Prayers
- Abiding Prayer Phrases
- Prayer Phrases for Abiding
- Breath Prayers for Abiding
- Mini Abiding Prayers
- Abiding Anchors
- Sacred Abiding Phrases
- Abiding Intentions
My recommendation
Use Abiding Prayers as the main public name.
Use Prayer Phrases when discussing the wording itself.
Use Breath Prayers when the phrases are coordinated with breathing.
Use Abiding Anchors when emphasizing emotional regulation and returning to presence.
Use Mini-Prayers for especially brief, accessible versions.
A clear naming structure for JesusAbiding.me would be:
Abiding Prayers
Short prayer phrases for presence, healing, and communion with Jesus.
For the four-page series:
The Abiding Prayer Guide
Personal Abiding • Shared Abiding • Mutual Abiding
My strongest single choice is:
The Three Abiding Prayers
It is simple, Christian, memorable, and broad enough to hold all three practices.
My recommendation
I reviewed the live JesusAbiding.me website. The current header contains nine visible items, including four numbered prayer pages and “One Long Page & Remarks.” It presently feels more like a working WordPress page list than a calm personal navigation system.
For this small, personal website, I recommend only three main navigation headings.
Recommended main navigation
Welcome
Links to the homepage.
Abiding Prayers ▾
Make Abiding Prayers link directly to the Jesus Abiding Prayer Guide.
Place these three pages beneath it as dropdown items:
- May I Abide
- May We Abide
- Abide in Me
The Prayer Guide already works well as the central doorway to these three related forms: Personal Abiding, Shared Abiding, and Mutual Abiding.
Healing Journey ▾
Place these beneath it:
- Abiding Anchor
- IFS & Jesus
- Granma Ross
I would change only the visible navigation label Abiding Practice to Abiding Anchor because the page itself is titled Being and Healing: The Abiding Anchor.
Your finished header would therefore appear as:
Welcome Abiding Prayers ▾ Healing Journey ▾
That is all the main navigation needs.
Exact WordPress menu structure
Welcome
Abiding Prayers
May I Abide
May We Abide
Abide in Me
Healing Journey
Abiding Anchor
IFS & Jesus
Granma RossThe Abiding Prayers parent item should link to:
/abiding-prayer-guide/The Healing Journey parent could initially link to the Abiding Anchor page:
/practice/Later, it could have its own short overview page, but one is not presently necessary.
Keep the smaller navigation inside the prayer pages
The four Ross-BUX pages already contain a helpful local navigation row:
Guide | May I Abide | May We Abide | Abide in Me
Keep that row on:
- The Prayer Guide
- May I Abide
- May We Abide
- Abide in Me
It helps a person move through the prayer collection without placing every page in the main header.
I would call this the Abiding Prayer navigation, while the WordPress header remains the website navigation.
Remove these from the main navigation
Remove the numbers
Change the visible menu labels from:
-
- Jesus Abiding Prayer Guide
-
- Jesus, May I Abide
-
- Jesus, May We Abide
-
- Jesus, Abide in Me
to:
- Abiding Prayers
- May I Abide
- May We Abide
- Abide in Me
The numbers were useful during construction, but they make the finished website feel like a course outline. The Prayer Guide can still present the three practices in their natural sequence.
Remove “One Long Page & Remarks”
The archived long page is more than 800 parsed lines and duplicates much of the newer focused content. Keep it private, draft it, or retain it as a personal archive, but do not display it in the public header.
A suitable private WordPress title would be:
Archive: Original Complete Abiding Prayer Page
One important page correction
There are currently two different “Jesus, May I Abide” addresses:
- The correct Personal Abiding page appears at
/jesus-may-i-abide/. - The main menu currently points to
/jesus-may-i-abide-2/, but that page contains the May We Abide material and even displays “Jesus, May We Abide” inside it.
I recommend:
- Remove the
-2page from the navigation. - Keep
/jesus-may-i-abide/as the correct Personal Abiding page. - Confirm that the May We material remains at
/jesus-may-we-abide/. - Move the mistaken
-2page to Trash once everything has been checked.
This will prevent visitors—and Ross—from opening the wrong practice.
One additional content cleanup
The IFS & Jesus page contains the morning freeze and Frozen Ross practice, but an unrelated Scorpio section begins later on the same page. That material would be clearer on a separate personal-reflection page or removed from this particular article.
The navigation item IFS & Jesus should lead only to material concerning:
- Morning dread
- Frozen waking
- Inner parts
- Jesus as compassionate presence
- The one-percent movement practice
Optional footer navigation
A modest footer could contain:
Welcome | Prayer Guide | JesusAbiding.com
Later, when those pages exist, you could add:
About Ross | Personal Notes
There is no need to place every page in the footer.
The final structure
Main header
Welcome Abiding Prayers ▾ Healing Journey ▾
Abiding Prayer sub-navigation
Guide May I Abide May We Abide Abide in Me
Footer
Welcome Prayer Guide JesusAbiding.com
This would give JesusAbiding.me a quiet and coherent structure:
Welcome introduces the journey.
Abiding Prayers offers the central spiritual practices.
Healing Journey holds the personal emotional-healing material.
Introduction
For your Jesus Abiding practices, the most familiar and helpful names are not all equally suitable. Some sound devotional, some psychological, and some promotional.
Most widely understood names
| Name | Familiarity | Best meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Prayer | Very high | Direct relationship with Jesus |
| Short Prayer | Very high | A brief, repeatable prayer |
| Prayer Phrase | High | A prayer expressed in a few memorable words |
| Breath Prayer | High | A short prayer gently joined with breathing |
| Abiding Prayer | High | A prayer centred on remaining in Jesus |
| Intention | High | A chosen spiritual direction or orientation |
| Affirmation | High | A positive statement of faith or identity |
| Invocation | Moderate | Calling upon or addressing Jesus |
| Blessing | High | Wishing or invoking divine goodness |
| Petition | Moderate | Asking Jesus for help, grace, or guidance |
Gentle contemporary names
These are especially suitable for JesusAbiding.me:
- Mini-Prayer
- Micro-Prayer
- Abiding Phrase
- Sacred Phrase
- Healing Prayer
- Prayer Anchor
- Abiding Anchor
- Heart Prayer
- Prayer of the Heart
- Devotional Phrase
- Companion Prayer
- Returning Prayer
- Resting Prayer
- Prayer Intention
- Abiding Reminder
Traditional Christian names
Breath prayer
A brief prayer repeated naturally with the breath.
Jesus, abide in me.
May I abide in You.
This name is familiar, gentle, and practical.
Arrow prayer
A very short prayer directed immediately toward God or Jesus.
Jesus, may I abide.
This is an older Christian expression. It conveys a prayer offered quickly from the heart.
Aspirational prayer
A short prayer expressing a holy longing.
Jesus, teach me to abide in You.
The shorter word aspiration was historically used for brief prayers that lift the heart toward God.
Invocation
A prayer that begins by calling upon Jesus:
Jesus …
This describes the opening movement rather than the complete practice.
Petition
A prayer asking for something:
May I abide.
Abide in me.
Teach me to abide.
Names that describe repetition
- Prayer refrain
- Sacred refrain
- Prayer repetition
- Contemplative phrase
- Meditation phrase
- Remembrance phrase
- Returning phrase
- Centering phrase
- Anchor phrase
Prayer refrain is especially beautiful when a phrase is repeated several times. It suggests rhythm without making the practice sound mechanical.
Comparing your examples
Phrases
Strengths: Simple, spacious, and inclusive. It allows both prayers and contemplative statements.
Limitation: It may not immediately communicate relationship with Jesus.
Better forms:
- Abiding Phrases
- Prayer Phrases
- Jesus Abiding Phrases
- Healing Prayer Phrases
Prayers
Strengths: The clearest and most natural name for your work. It immediately communicates relationship with Jesus.
Limitation: Some contemplative statements may not be direct requests.
Best public-facing choice:
Abiding Prayers
Intentions
Strengths: Gentle and psychologically accessible. Useful when the phrase establishes a direction rather than making a request.
Example:
Today, I will return gently to Jesus.
Limitation: It can sound more self-directed and less relational than prayer.
Slogans
Strengths: Memorable and easy to repeat.
Limitation: It sounds promotional, commercial, or campaign-like. It does not fully honour the tenderness of these practices.
I would not use slogans as the primary name.
Minis
Strengths: Friendly, modern, and approachable.
Limitation: By itself, minis does not explain what the practices are.
Better forms:
- Mini-Prayers
- Abiding Minis
- One-Minute Abiding Prayers
Of these, Mini-Prayers is the clearest.
Wishes
Strengths: Gentle, hopeful, and non-demanding.
Limitation: A wish may sound passive and may not communicate active relationship with Jesus.
For phrases beginning with may, prayerful wishes could be used occasionally, but not as the main category.
Affirmations
Strengths: Familiar in mindfulness, counselling, and self-development.
Limitation: An affirmation is usually understood as a statement one declares, such as:
I abide in Jesus.
It is less suitable for petitions such as:
Jesus, may I abide.
Your phrases are usually more relational than standard affirmations.
Mantras
Strengths: Widely understood as short, repeated phrases.
Limitation: It comes from Indian spiritual traditions and may make some Christian readers uncertain about the nature of the practice.
You could use it when speaking across traditions, but breath prayer or prayer phrase is better for JesusAbiding.me.