This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens   Today’s Reflection The gifts of God’s vulnerable presence and love make it possible for us to offer our lives to God and others. To show up in the world risking love. To show up as our truest selves. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The […]

This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens   Today’s Reflection Playfulness is one aspect of a contemplative approach to life with God. . . . Jesus was speaking to me when Jesus said that to enter God’s kingdom you must become like a little child. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The Way

This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens   Today’s Reflection When we slow to a pace that allows us to notice the particulars of our lives, and we can only attend to God in our spiritual practices if we refuse the temptation to hurry. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The Way of

This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens   Today’s Reflection When we make time for prayer, we say to God what Jesus in essence said to the man who was blind and begging on the side of the road: You have my complete attention. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The Way of

This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens   Today’s Reflection We find ourselves wanting to grow in prayer and live fully in touch with God, that means the divine Gardener is digging, loosening the soil. God is already doing what needs to be done. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The Way of

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection One thing I know for certain: Grief is not a matter of getting past all the obstacles of the first year. It’s learning to embrace life each day knowing that joy and grief will always be intertwined. —Missy Buchanan, Feeling

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection I just felt the need to sit alone in my grief. . . . By the time late afternoon came, I was emotionally drained, but I realized that I felt better. . . . Sometimes hope comes wrapped in tears.

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection If I had known that day was going to be your last, I would have fought through the sobs to tell you one last time how much I loved being your wife and best friend in this earthly life. —Missy

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection I take comfort in my church family who love me well in your absence. I feel their encouragement and grace as the presence of God. Still, I miss the warmth of my hand in yours. —Missy Buchanan, Feeling Your Way

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection There are times when I’m getting ready for bed that I realize I have not uttered a single word out loud that day. . . . I am learning that silence is sometimes a great burden to bear. —Missy Buchanan,