This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley Today’s Reflection Follow the example of the healed leper who chose to give thanks for what had happened in his life. Giving thanks . . . opens our eyes to the fact that a lot more goes on in our lives than we may
This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley Today’s Reflection Part of planning one’s finances better involves the inner journey whereby we have to ask ourselves some very pointed questions: “What do I chase after?” “What dominates my thinking?” “What causes my greatest fear and anxiety?” —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial Struggle: 28
This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley Today’s Reflection God is still God. When our worry turns to panic, our natural response is to try to take control. However, it is comforting to know that one greater than ourselves loves us and takes care of our needs. —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial
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This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley Today’s Reflection Guilt, like shame, seems to drain us, imprison us, and keep us away from any meaningful conversation with God. Why not try to bring your feelings of guilt to God? —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial Struggle: 28 Days of Prayer (Upper Room Books,
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This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens Today’s Reflection The first step to recognizing and releasing our attachments is to notice them. We need to become skilled at noticing when attachments are holding us back. And that means paying attention. In particular, we can notice our feelings and thoughts. —L. Roger
This week’s featured book: Everyday Contemplative by L. Roger Owens Today’s Reflection Again and again, Jesus—through his words and deeds—erased the dividing lines of judgement set up by religion and culture and welcomed the judged into fellowship with himself and, through himself, with God. —L. Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative: The Way of Prayerful Living
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
