To Face the New Day

May 12, 2013

Today’s Reflection HAVING LIVED WITH HIV for nearly two decades, I have had my share of struggles: a bout with pneumonia, loss of weight and muscle mass, extreme fatigue, depression, and losing nearly 3,000 of my friends to HIV/AIDS. On my good days, I greet the morning with a smile, give thanks to God for [...]

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My Opportunity

May 11, 2013

Today’s Reflection “YOU DON’T KNOW ME, CHELSEY,” my friend said with tears running down her face. In the school library, she opened up to me and told me that her stepfather was being mean to her. I knew that something bad had been happening in her home life, something that had broken her heart; but [...]

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Surrender

May 10, 2013

Today’s Reflection SURRENDER BEGINS with a deliberate and definite decision to hand our will and life over to God. It continues as a daily process during which we seek (and sometimes struggle) to find and do God’s will. Rather than turning us into passive spectators of life, surrender empowers us to live more responsibly and [...]

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Plant Me in Righteousness

May 9, 2013

Today’s Reflection O GOD, I SURRENDER TO YOU THE HABITS and sins that, like frost, chill my soul and cause your life-giving energy to cease its flow in me. Uproot me from the weed patches of evil wherein I have chosen to sink my roots. Plant me instead in your field of righteousness. – Norman [...]

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A Response to Suffering

May 8, 2013

Today’s Reflection CAREGIVING is a deeply ingrained human response to suffering. We want to ease pain, to restore calm and peace to those in need. But caregiving takes a toll. . . . It is hard to listen to others when the pains and troubles of our own lives are clamoring for attention. But if [...]

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Return to Prayer

May 7, 2013

Today’s Reflection WHAT WOULD MY LIFE be like if I just stopped praying altogether? I mean, what if God promised me that things would stay the same regardless of whether I prayed or not: would I still continue to pray? That’s a hard question. But I’ve thought about it because on a whole other level [...]

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Helping Others Grow

May 6, 2013

Today’s Reflection FOR YEARS my “bucket list” included enrolling in the Master Gardener program supported by Purdue University in my home state of Indiana. Not until I paid my registration fee, bought the necessary tools, and attended my first meeting did I learn the depth of the curriculum. This serious business involved much more than [...]

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Remember to Rest

May 5, 2013

Today’s Reflection FOUNDATIONAL TO human wholeness is the model of the Creator who rested on the seventh day from every work. The Hebrew Scriptures are filled with references to honoring the Sabbath. However, keeping the Sabbath itself does not cause the Hebrews to enter God’s rest any more than my punctilious “no sewing on Sunday” [...]

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Follow Me

May 4, 2013

Today’s Reflection FOLLOW ME. One of the most compelling sentences in the Bible. Two words, when spoken by Jesus, create a sense of power and mystery and awe. To follow is to enter into the unknown, to give your life over to another. We rarely want to do this. Yet at the same time it [...]

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Faith

May 3, 2013

Today’s Reflection THE WILDFLOWERS are blooming,bright sky bluebonnets, red-orange flames of Indian Paintbrushes, …a phoenix of color rising from the ashes,a faith that flowers through the flames. – Sally Clark Weavings, Feb/March/April 2013 From page 48 of Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life, February/March/April 2013. Copyright © 2012 by The Upper Room. All [...]

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