Daily words of wisdom and faith
Saturday’s Reflection
GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, who considers every person on earth your child, we confess that we have ignored the ancient scriptural instruction to do justice, love kindness, and, especially, to walk humbly. Guide us as we seek a gentler and more respectful path, to retain the passion to right the wrongs we see, as [...]
Friday’s Reflection
OBSTACLES are opportunities for grace. The dark and difficult aspects of our own nature, brought into the light of love, can actually become doorways to encountering the nearer presence of God.
- Robert Corin Morris
Wrestling with Grace: A Spirituality for the Rough Edges of Daily Life
From p. 85 of Wrestling with Grace by Robert Corin [...]
Thursday’s Reflection
OFTEN PRAYER BEGINS as a longing in the heart, a longing for love, a longing for connection, a longing to make contact with a Power greater than ourselves. Sometimes it begins as a desperate need for help, peace, strength, or comfort. Other times prayer’s beginning is a deep hope for others — an ache [...]
Wednesday’s Reflection
IN THE FACE of this central Christian mystery, we may be inclined only to stop and adore. But nowhere in the Gospels does Jesus urge us to adore him.
Rather, he calls us to follow him and thereby to partake of his life, his energy, his spirit — living the divine life here and [...]
Tuesday’s Reflection
GOD, DO NOT PERMIT us to be content marking the places where you walked, instead of walking our own walk — with you. How fine if at our end someone could say of us that we were faithful. Amen.
- W. Paul Jones
An Eclectic Almanac for the Faithful
From p. 291 of An Eclectic Almanac for [...]
Monday’s Reflection
MY SOUL SMILES
My heart dances
My fears flee
My mind wrestles
My tongue shouts praise
My loneliness finds company
My spirit meets God
Surely, we are in the house of the Lord!
- Ciona D. Rouse
The Africana Worship Book: Year A
From p. 49 of The Africana Worship Book: Year A edited by Valerie Bridgeman Davis and Safiyah Fosua. Copyright © 2006 [...]
Sunday’s Reflection
EACH ENCOUNTER we have is part of our daily offering to God. Each day, every deed, all the intentional motion of our souls — however helpful or hurtful it may be — is the actual “living sacrifice” we give to God as material with which to weave the human story (see Rom. 12:1). At [...]
