Wednesday’s Reflection WE ARE CALLED, in this broken world, to open ourselves to the beauty that persists. To allow ourselves to see and to be stunned.BLESSINGMay you move through this daywith eyes open to the Godwho shines like the sunwithin and around you. - Jan L. Richardson In the Sanctuary of Women From page ... Continue

Tuesday’s Reflection A COMMONLY HELD IDEA we need to abandon is that the “will of God” is some rigid, predetermined scheme we are expected to figure out, as if God had a great computerized master plan. In this view, our task (or rather our test) is to figure out how to ... Continue

Monday’s Reflection WE MAY NOT FRAME the whole subject of what we are to do in the world, what our mission is, in terms of ourselves. Rather, we consider our life’s task in terms of Jesus Christ. The issue is not my spiritual journey and my quest for God. That’s backward. ... Continue

Sunday’s Reflection THERE ARE TIMES when our certainties about life seem seriously undermined, if not completely shattered. There are other times when, through conscious effort or quite apart from it, we move from disorientation to a new constellation of meaning and wholeness. Life is not a stationary experience. New insights and ... Continue

Saturday’s Reflection GOD’S WORD will speak to us and transform our lives if we will come to it in a spirit of prayer and expectancy. The invitation is for us to seek the living presence of God in the Bible and to come ready to listen and respond. When we read ... Continue

Friday’s Reflection WE CAN TRUST that in prayer we always meet God, whether our experience of prayer is easy or difficult. We can also trust that God’s love and desire for us are greater than our ability to utter “good prayers” or even deeply felt prayers. We enter prayer as a ... Continue

Thursday’s Reflection Make me worthy, Lord, to serve you and all the world’s people who live and die in loneliness, hunger, poverty, and sickness. Give them through my hands this day their daily bread, and by my love, give them peace and joy. - Norman Shawchuck and Rueben P. Job A Guide to ... Continue

Wednesday’s Reflection YOU, O GOD, are in our midst. You come to us in the faces of the known and unknown. You rejoice over us with gladness and renew us in love. Help us receive strangers as honored guests. Open us to receive the gifts others offer us. We will trust ... Continue

Tuesday’s Reflection FOR THE MATURE DISCIPLE of Christ, those things that are not godly weary the soul, but engagement in those actions that reflect God’s will and way elevate the spirit. When we view our sinful actions for what they actually are — rebellion against God — they burden us. We ... Continue

Monday’s Reflection MY GOD, EVERY FIBER of my being vibrates at the touch of your grace — whereby I am given the privilege of being your child. My joy at your overwhelming gestures of love and the high privilege you extend to me of entering into your life invades my being ... Continue