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Today’s Reflection
My soul’s house is cramped. Expand it, so that you may enter in. It is in ruins. Restore it. It must offend your eyes. I confess and know it, but who will cleanse it?
—Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Augustine (Upper Room Books, 2017)
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Today’s Question
What does your soul’s house look like, smell like, feel like? What would it look like when God enters it? Join the conversation.
Today’s Scripture
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
—Psalm 51:10 (NRSVUE)
Prayer for the Week
Great are you, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power and your understanding is beyond measure. Amen. — Augustine (Inspired by Psalm 145 & 147)
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Something More
Lectionary Readings
- Exodus 3:1-15
- Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b
- Romans 12:9-21
- Matthew 16:21-28
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