Friday’s Reflection “The tender love that our good Lord has for all who will be saved . . . comforts quickly and sweetly, explaining in this way: . . . “”All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.”" These words were shown quite tenderly, with no hint of ... Continue

Thursday’s Reflection "> LIVING WELL through loss involves learning how to grieve. Grieving teaches us to live again in the absence of someone or something significant. Grieving isn’t just a time of unbearable emptiness and tears but a whole process of becoming a new person shaped by the memory of what is ... Continue

Wednesday’s Reflection ELIJAH HERE. Things are getting harder for me and my family. When the shop where my mom worked went out of business, I figured she’d find another job soon. But weeks went by, and it hadn’t happened. “We’re going to have to cut back even more,” Dad said at supper one ... Continue

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Monday’s Reflection “Welcome one another, therefore,just as Christ has welcomed you.”Paul of TarsusRomans 15:7 ONCE IN A WHILE we are privileged to meet someone who lives by that golden rule— who gives with the same measure they have received from Christ. It seems to me that the folks who are best at ... Continue

Sunday’s Reflection CAREGIVING is a deeply ingrained human response to suffering. We want to ease pain, to restore calm and peace to those in need. But caregiving takes a toll. . . . It is hard to listen to others when the pains and troubles of our own lives are clamoring ... Continue

Saturday’s Reflection I WAS NEVER astutely aware of my surroundings. A “head in the clouds” kind of person, my family would say. But an encounter with cancer changed all that. As happens with most any traumatic, life-changing event, I came out of that cancer experience with a new appreciation for the ... Continue

Friday’s Reflection IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, memories of certain places in your life make your feet feel good. I think of the hot concrete outside the Vandalia Dairy Queen; the cool kitchen linoleum of a friend’s house; the grass of the park; … the gritty texture of the beach at vacation ... Continue

Thursday’s Reflection TODAY, in Christ,you are a new creation.Today, in Christ,the creation itself is made new.With Christ’s own courage and compassion,may you begin your new lifein this creationtoday.—Sam Hamilton-Poore - Sam Hamilton-Poore Earth Gospel From page 89 of Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation by Sam Hamilton-Poore. Copyright © 2008 by ... Continue

Wednesday’s Reflection LONG AGO in the mists of creation, God made a world of goodness and beauty. We are told that God labored to fashion this masterpiece for six days, and when God contemplated the finished work, God smiled. “It was very good” (Genesis 1:31). And on the seventh day of Creation, ... Continue