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 […]
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 […]
God’s Master Game – Sept. 18, 2019
… Each condition I flee from pursues me, Each condition I welcome transforms me and becomes itself transformed into its radiant jewel-like essence. I bow to the One who has made it so, Who has crafted this Master Game. To play it is purest delight; To honor its form–true devotion. –Jennifer Welwood, from “Unconditional”
Feasting in Honor of What Was Lost – Sept. 17, 2019
There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which […]
