Today’s Reflection GOD, THE WORLD SEEMS CRAZY RIGHT NOW.It’s frightening how many things are going wrong:wars, natural disasters, economic crises.We see suffering all around.I worry for my friends and family,for our safety, for job security.I worry about our earth, what is going to happen next.Help me remember that you are present ... Continue

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Today’s Reflection WAITING MAY BE one of the most maddening and difficult moral and psychological challenges life presents. When all we can do is wait, we feel consigned to passivity, uncertainty, and powerlessness. To wait for housing or food or water or a blanket for a shivering child may rightly inspire ... Continue

Today’s Reflection PRAYING THE SINNER’S PRAYER is not the end goal of the Christian life. Praying one prayer, or having one experience of God’s grace, is not the fullness of what God hopes for us. Please don’t misunderstand me: having an initial experience of God’s grace by faith is absolutely essential, ... Continue

Today’s Reflection THE CHRISTIAN FAITH teaches that God wants to save us when we are at our worst. God loves us still. God is not ignorant of our sin; God sees it more devastatingly than we do. But God loves each one of us and sees someone whom God wants to ... Continue

Today’s Reflection THE HAMMERING STACCATO OF NOISE … so infuses our daily lives that we have forgotten we have a choice: we can choose to disconnect from the world’s chatter. Disconnecting from the noise allows us to plug back into our quiet selves and to reconnect with God. Our souls, our ... Continue

Today’s Reflection IN CELTIC TRADITION, the wild goose is sometimes used as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Geese, like the wind and the Spirit, come from distant places we cannot see and go where God directs them. When my grandmother died, a flock of Canada geese flew over the cemetery, reminding ... Continue

Today’s Reflection COMPASSIONATE GOD, help me not to walk behind others or to walk in front of them but to walk beside them with kindness. Amen. - Richard Morgan Settling In From page 138 of Settling In: My First Year in a Retirement Community by Richard Morgan. Copyright © 2006 by Richard Morgan. ... Continue

Today’s Reflection May I walk this day in the realm of grace, walking with You my feet firmly on your earth-path, my heart loving all as kindred, my words and deeds alive with justice. May I walk as blessing, meeting blessing at every turn in every challenge, blessing, in all opposition, blessing, in harm’s way, blessing. May I walk each step in ... Continue

Today’s Reflection 1. Start the day with prayer and praise. Before you get up each day, take a moment to praise God and ask for God’s help in seeing the good in the day ahead. 2. Smile! You don’t necessarily need to pretend to be cheerful when you’re not, but sometimes just ... Continue