Today’s Reflection
[Jesus] saw eternal life as a wholeness, a continuum with no dividing categories. He knew eternal life was the unbroken relationship with God on this side of death and on the other. It is the eternal now.
—Flora Slosson Wuellner, Beyond Death: What Jesus Revealed about Eternal Life (Upper Room Books, 2014)
Today’s Question
How will you live your life anew, starting now? Join the conversation.
Today’s Scripture
Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.”
—Revelation 21:6
Prayer for the Week
God, you are life itself. Even when I doubt, even when I falter, even when I die, you compassionately sustain me. Despite my fears, you have prepared a place for me in heaven and furnished it with your love. And I love you in return, now and forever. Amen
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Lectionary Readings
First Sunday of Advent
- Isaiah 2:1-5
- Psalm 122
- Romans 13:11-14
- Matthew 24:36-44
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