We Need a Hero

Today’s Reflection

“Heroes don’t stand out in a crowd. Heroes are simply everyday people who make an extraordinary difference.”
-Melissa Hart
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Today’s Question
as anyone every made an extraordinary difference in your life or in the life of a friend? Share your [...]

On the Palm of God’s Hand

Monday’s Reflection

ON THE PALM OF YOUR HAND you write my name, O God.Through the pages of creation, my life unfolds.In the chambers of your heart, I have a home, O God,where every cry is heard, every tear seen,every thanks whispered in the dark or sung to the morning is known to you.And still, I am [...]

God of Creation

Sunday’s Reflection

GOD IS MUCH MORE CREATIVE than our comfort level tends to allow–much more in tune with the tempo of our lives and the various places we find ourselves. In fact, those are the points where God seeks us–through most everything that happens, in every incongruent and often confusing aspect of our personal experience.
>As Jesus [...]

Attentive to God

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 [...]

Christ Hears Our Prayers

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, [...]

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) lectionary reading for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (September 12, 2010).

You Are Loved by God

Thursday’s Reflection

THIS 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 [...]

God Knows Us

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 [...]

Abiding in Christ

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 [...]

Taking Up the Cross

Monday’s Reflection

TAKING 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: [...]

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