Practical Spirituality

 

Today’s Reflection

If God is All and God’s Word to us is All, that must mean that God is the reality and controlling factor of every situation, religious or secular. . . . Therefore our favorite distinction between the spiritual life and the practical life is false.

—Evelyn Underhill, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Evelyn Underhill (Upper Room Books, 2017)

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Today’s Question

What are the implications of the religious and secular, the spiritual and physical, all being rooted in God? Join the conversation.

Today’s Scripture

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.
—Romans 12:1 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
—A Liturgy for Morning Prayer, The Upper Room Worshipbook
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Lectionary Readings

• Genesis 21:8-21
• Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
• Romans 6:1b-11
• Matthew 10:24-39

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