A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Our words and actions will contribute either to reconciliation and peace, or to conflict and strife. We need to be reminded again and again that what we choose to think, what we choose to say, and what we choose to do will shape our lives and the lives of others. We have an important role to play in creating our reality.
Br. David Vryhof,
Society of St. John the Evangelist.
A Prayer for election day
Gracious and loving God, you have bound us together in a common life. We commend ourselves, our communities, states, and country to your merciful care, that, being guided by your providence, we may dwell secure in your peace.
Read the rest of the prayer by the Rev. Mike Marsh.
The Holy Water We Share
“I was not imagining two separate yards with neighbors leaning over a shared boundary. I was imagining a single reservoir of living water, with two people looking into it. One might have been a Muslim and the other a Christian, but there was nothing in their faces to tell me that.”
Read the reflection from Barbara Brown Taylor.
Found in Daily Meditations from the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Everything Happens for A Reason & Other Lies I’ve Loved
Kate Bowler believed, as do many Americans, that God gives good things to good people and reserves bad things for bad people. But then how could she justify her cancer diagnosis at the age of 35?
Watch the video or read the transcript.
Found in Daily Good.
Waiting on God
There are so many variables in life over which we have little, if any, control. Rather than seeing life as a series of obstacles, frustrations, and impenetrable questions, we could instead see life as an endless stream of invitations to cooperate with whatever God is up to, and to abandon ourselves into God’s hands and God’s time.
Adverbs for Advent
A Wisdom Years Collaborative Study
How will we live Advent this year? Generously? Expectantly? Patiently? As we read daily meditations from Marilyn McEntye’s Adverbs for Advent, we’ll gather on Zoom weekly to share inspiration and encouragement. Advent begins November 27.
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