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,

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection Today I dropped a glass on the kitchen floor. . . . On the day you died, my life shattered into countless shards, but now you are not here to help me sweep up the brokenness. —Missy Buchanan, Feeling Your

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection My husband, Barry, was both my rock and my soft pillow in this earthly life. When he died, I was devastated. . . . [This book is] your invitation to grope alongside me in this darkness of grief. —Missy Buchanan,

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The movement of the heart is not unsuitably illustrated by the comparison of a mill wheel. . . . It can never stop its work so long as it is driven round by the action of the water. —John Cassian,

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection There is a great difference between those who put out the fire of sin within themselves by fear of hell or hope of future reward and those who . . . keep hold of the virtue of purity simply from