Trusted Guide, you are my mentor and Inspiration, my home of good choices and decisions. You help me search with confidence as I find my way to inner peace. Please gather your wisdom around me. Guide me carefully as I make choices about how to use my energy positively. Place your discerning touch on my…
“This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your…
Loving Father, Creator Spirit, Thank you that you created all people. That you knit us together in our mother’s womb and placed a purpose on each person’s life. Thank you that there were no mistakes in your creation Thank you, God, that we have weeks like these where we can turn our focus to reconciliation.…
Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And…
There is a season for everything, A time for giving birth, A time for dying. A time for tears, A time for laughter, A time for mourning, A time for dancing. (Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4) The trees grow more restless; October wind weaves through them. They shake their arms in dismay as if to fight the coming…
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back,…
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod…
The resurrection does not solve our problems about dying and death. It is not the happy ending to our life’s struggle, nor is it the big surprise that God has kept in store for us. No, the resurrection is the expression of God’s faithfulness…. The resurrection is God’s way of revealing to us that nothing…
Blessed are you who bear the light in unbearable times, who testify to its endurance amid the unendurable, who bear witness to its persistence when everything seems in shadow and grief. Blessed are you in whom the light lives, in whom the brightness blazes— your heart a chapel, an altar where in the deepest night…