Saturday’s Reflection WHY BE ATTENTIVE TO GOD? Because it will give you a spiritual high? because you will have a wonderful experience? to get something for yourself? No. Because you are loved. Give yourself in gratitude for that love. The love God gives to you calls for your love in response. You are “called” to overflowing [...]

Friday’s Reflection EVERY MORNING, I give thanks for all God has given me–for my bed, my breakfast, my cup of tea from my leaf-shaped teapot. But as I pray, I know that beyond my home, beyond my country where freedom and peace are taken for granted, beyond all the blessings of my life lie poverty, slavery, [...]

Thursday’s ReflectionTHIS PROCLAMATION IS THE HEART of the gospel: I am loved by God. My favorite way of stating it is this: There is a place in God’s heart that only I can fill–only you can fill. . . . God’s desire for a relationship with us is declared on boldfaced billboards visible from almost [...]

Wednesday’s Reflection GOD KNOWS US and calls us by name. We are not strangers or aliens to God. We are each and all God’s beloved. We have as our lover the Creator and Master of all that exists. The One who calls us beloved is also the one who knows us so intimately and well that [...]

Tuesday’s Reflection FOLLOWING JESUS is a nonnegotiable principle for Christians. We cannot follow Jesus for long unless we are in Christ, abiding in him. We renew our strength, find direction, and gain confidence by cultivating the presence of Christ within—through prayer, immersing ourselves in scripture, and spending time with God’s people so that we act—we follow—from [...]

Monday’s ReflectionTAKING UP THE CROSS calls us to embrace rather than ignore the suffering of this world. Taking up the cross awakens a compassion and a healing power in us that in turn kindles desire to bring the kingdom into our midst. - Daniel Wolpert Leading a Life with God From p. 107, Leading a Life with God: [...]

Sunday’s Reflection HUMILITY … is essential to the spiritual life because it helps you to know where you come from, to see where you are going, and to remember before whom you will ultimately stand. This humility, however, comes not from putting yourself down or from downplaying who you are. … True humility is that which [...]

Saturday’s Reflection “HELP ME, dear God,to see my brother with the eyes of Christ,to hear my sister with the ears of Christ,to taste my neighbor’s hunger with the mouth of Christ,to smell creation’s beauty with the nose of Christ,to touch the world’s pain with the hands of Christand to love life, each life, every life,with the [...]

Friday’s ReflectionO JESUS, your love knew no bounds as you willingly sacrificed your own life for our betterment. Touch our hearts this day with your compassion. Empower us by your grace to be loving agents of your grace to others. Help us to act and to work for the betterment of those less fortunate than [...]

Thursday’s Reflection MORE URGENTLY THAN EVER BEFORE, the biblical mandate to “show hospitality to strangers” (Heb. 13:2) summons us to create a world where nonuniformity breeds not estrangement but engagement. Every encounter, however small, which forms grace-filled links between diverse groups is part of that effort.- Robert Corin Morris Provocative Grace From p. 99, Provocative Grace: The Challenge [...]