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Today’s Reflection
Adoration implies: The upward and outward look of humble and joyful admiration. Awestruck delight in the splendor and beauty of God, the action of God and Being of God, in and for God’s self alone.
—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
Do you have adoration for God? Take a moment to tell God about your admiration. Join the conversation.
Today’s Scripture
Honor and majesty are before him;
strength and joy are in his place.
—1 Chronicles 16: 27 (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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