Sunday, September 30, 2018
It's about You, not I
Title says it a, reposting current events, ( history in the making ", God, Jesus, love
Justice With Judge Jeanine 9/29/18 | Breaking Fox News | September 29, 2018
history being made, shaming USA
THINK&PRAY: The simple truth
THINK&PRAY: The simple truth: “Your laws are wonderful… so even the simple can understand. Guide my steps by your word. So I will not be overcome by evil.” – Psalm ...
A Prayer for God’s Presence
Today’s Reflection sometimes my faith becomes very small. Please remind me that you have not abandoned me, for your faithfulness never changes. Help me to wait with patience and to trust that all time is in your hand.
– Elizabeth J. Canham
Finding Your Voice in the Psalms |
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Upper Room
Today’s Reflection
from past to future, earth to sky,
you bring me beauty,
clense, renew, sustain my life
. . . and I?
I bring you but enduring thanks
awash with firm intent
to honor and respect,
not profane, neglect,
your call to purity.
– Gerrie L. Grimsley and Jane J. Young
Contemplative by Design
Contemplative by Design
Friday, September 28, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Today’s Reflection
– Richard Lyon Morgan
Fire in the Soul |
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
My Gmail
Posted: 24 Sep 2018 10:01 PM PDT
Today’s Reflection
Certainly the church is human, with a goodly collection of hypocrites and sinners. Yet just as essentially is she divine — consecrated by Christ as his body on earth so that “the gates of Hades will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). Gregory of Nyssa deepends this analogy with the idea of the church as nurse, its teachings being our milk, its sacraments our food.
Worship is at the center of the church’s communal life. While it may not always be clear what the shabby little church across town is all about, be assured that it is an invitation touching our deepest yearning — to be embraced in an organic belonging that God intends for the church to provide.
– W. Paul Jones
Becoming Who God Wants You to Be
From page 43 of Becoming Who God Wants You to Be: 60 Meditations for Personal Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones. Copyright © 2013 by W. Paul Jones. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://bookstore.upperroom.Becoming Who God Wants You to Be
Today’s
Monday, September 24, 2018
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Christian Companions
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Posted: 22 Sep 2018 10:01 PM PDT
Today’s Reflection Christians need companions on the faith journey much in the way that meerkats need one another: for survival. The fellowship of companions in Christ strengthens us to face the world faithfully, enabling us to do together what we cannot do alone. Spiritual companions make us more than we can ever be on our own because God’s love binds us together. The presence of friends makes God’s love more real to us.
– Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster
The Godbearing Life |
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Trust in God
Today’s Reflection
– Rueben P. Job, Norman Shawchuck
A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God
A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God
Friday, September 21, 2018
Passion for The Truth
WE NEED TO REDEVELOP our view of friendship and its purposes. In our culture, a friend is someone you enjoy doing things with, or perhaps someone with whom you share your troubles. But history bears witness to other kinds of friendship. In the 1930s, an impressive group of men began to meet in Oxford. C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and others, called themselves the “Inklings.” They talked politics and religion, and read aloud what they were working on. Just imagine: a group of young men hearing Tolkien read the rough draft of The Lord of the Rings and Lewis trying out segments of The Screwtape Letters! The criterion for being in the Inklings was simply this: Do you care about the truth? Members did not need to agree on the answers, but had to be passionate about the questions. Such a company of friends can be something like a school of virtue, in which we test our theories and practice doing good. …
Within the body of Christ we need to be intentional about the seed we sow, about how our behavior with friends should be preparing us for service out in the world. We need each other to draw us out of our self-centeredness. We need others to hold us accountable, to be like a mirror to help us see our lives and our doing in our faith more clearly. We need each other for mutual encouragement, to push further into serving the world than we might if left alone.
– James C. Howell
Yours Are the Hands of Christ
Yours Are the Hands of Christ
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Wheelchair (seated) Zumba - On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull
we all can use this, even mobile people who sit at desks all day, lunch hour
Upper Room Daily Reflections
Today’s Reflection
IN THIS WORLD’S EYES, there is an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they are never separated. Our ministry is to help people gradually let go of their resentment and discover that right in the middle of suffering there is a blessing. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the Kingdom of God.
Jesus says to us, “Cry over your pains, and you will discover that I’m right there in your tears, and you will be grateful for my presence in your weakness.”
– by Henri J. M. Nouwen, edited by John S. Mogabgab
A Spirituality of Living
A Spirituality of Living
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
All in the Family S5 E06 Archie's Helping Hand
Archie was correct on this. I lost a lot, trying to be a 'modern wife', i'll take 'just like ' any day
Monday, September 17, 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Prayer Is about Love
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Today’s Reflection Perhaps we need to reexamine this whole business of praying for this or that. Prayer’s value for Jesus did not rise or fall depending on whether it “worked” or not. He prayed in Gethsemane to avoid death! For Jesus, prayer was about love, not consequences. His relationship with God, whom he called “Abba,” an unusually affectionate word, was so passionate that the two of them had to be together regularly. Prayer is actually an end in itself because it is communion with God. That same God is full of compassion, gravely concerned about the troubles of the world. Prayer called us into communion, not only with God, but with all God loves. Therefore, prayer, practiced even amateurishly, catapults us out into the streets to be in service.
– James C. Howell
Yours Are the Hands of Christ |
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