Today’s Reflection
No Cristain escapes the taste of wilderness on the way to the Promised Land; the wilderness confronts this generation in a very harsh and concrete form. . . . [This] helps us, in a disagreeable way, to realize our entire dependence on God.
—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 is the “wilderness” of this generation? Do you see God making a way out of it? Join the conversation.
Today’s Scripture
I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
—Isaiah 43:19 (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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Something More
Lectionary Readings
- Genesis 21:8-21
- Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
- Romans 6:1b-11
- Matthew 10:24-39
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