Today's Reflection

AS WE MOVE along our spiritual journeys, we live in the tension between fear and fantasy. But I know of a third way to continue our spiritual journeys: We can choose to live a story of faith and trust in God and God’s goodness. Making this choice does not mean that we will never feel fear or submit to fantasies about the future. Stories of faith do not resolve this tension; instead, they help us transcend fear and fantasy in surprising ways by pointing toward the divine presence in our lives.

—Michael E. Williams, Spoken into Being: Divine Encounters Through Story (Upper Room Books, 2017)

Today's Question

What story of faith in God’s goodness can you share today?  

Today's Scripture

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”
—Colossians 2:6-7 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

I love to tell the story
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest.

From "I Love to Tell the Story" by
Katherine Hankey, The United Methodist Hymnal, No. 156

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Lectionary Readings

(Courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library)

• • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
  • Psalm 32:1-7
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
  • Luke 19:1-10

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