Carry Us – Oct. 23, 2019
You call us into discipleship, O One Who Bears All Burdens, making a way through the wilderness, hovering near in pillar and cloud, revealing bits of Your glory when all seems hopeless and courage fails. Carry us on the wingtips of Your never-failing promise, through moments of discouragement as we push against the tide. You […]
A Wealth of Benediction – Oct. 22, 2019
God of the poor, God who was poor, You entered human history impoverished and homeless, and fled in search of refuge to a land that was not Your own. You understand the meaning of the poverty, of deprivation, whether body, mind, or spirit, temporary or indefinite, of culture, class, or gender, anywhere in the world. […]
Deliver Us from Hesitation – Oct. 21, 2019
Daily quotations for this week are from Miriam Therese Winter – WomanWord: A Feminist Lectionary and Psalter (New York: Crossroad, 1997. ISBN: 9780824510541). Deliver us, O God, from any hesitation to take a stand for justice. May we never run from our responsibility to You. In You, O God, we find the strength to confront […]
The Spirit’s Lead – Oct. 18, 2019
“In following the Spirit’s lead as best we can, we will cooperate with God’s mysterious evolution of a fully reconciled and joyful creation. Our personal and social visions and actions will be soaked with what the Spirit forms in us, always beyond our full comprehension. With childlike hearts, yet vigilant minds, we will ever more […]