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A Life of Simplicity
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:01:27 +0000

Saturday’s Reflection WHEN WE BEGIN to live a spirituality of simplicity, our primary concern ceases to be success and becomes faithfulness. We are called to live with integrity, to express the truth as we perceive it, and to trust in God’s ability to use what we offer. - Elizabeth J. Canham Heart Whispers From Heart Whispers by Elizabeth J. Canham. Copyright © 1999 by [...]

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I Belong to God
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:15 +0000

Friday’s Reflection I BELONG TO GOD: We do not project or generate grace. Nor do we initiate the redemptive order or process which, when we let it, sweeps into its course our scarred lives, our prayers, and our concerns for others. The redemptive process is already going on . … God who besieges [...]

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Praying Without Realizing It
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:13 +0000

Thursday’s Reflection WE ARE … praying all the time without realizing it. There’s a constant stream of hungers and needs, gripes and groans, desires and dreams that well up from the mysterious depths of soul and body, reaching out to connect with the life within us and around us. This semiconscious asking may not be addressed [...]

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Thanksgiving for Creation
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:31 +0000

Wednesday’s Reflection DEAR GOD, THANK YOU so much for creating such an amazing world for us to live in. When we take time simply to look around us, we see an astounding number of examples of your love for us. Please help us not to take these for granted. Guide us and our leaders to truly appreciate [...]

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From Doubt to Belief
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:15 +0000

Tuesday’s Reflection THANK YOU, GOD, for your delight in me. Let me move from doubt to belief, trusting in your extravagant grace. Let me be your love, grace, and delight for others today. Amen. - Beth A. Richardson The Uncluttered Heart: Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas From p. 66 of The Uncluttered Heart: Making Room for [...]

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May We Choose Love
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:29 +0000

Monday’s Reflection My prayer is simple: May we choose love, Lord. May we choose love when faced with retaliation, love when tempted by deception, love when addressing poverty, love when speaking to our neighbors, love when lured by bad choices, love when electing leaders. In all the things we do, in all the words we say, and in all the places we go, may we [...]

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The Capacity to See
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:26 +0000

Sunday’s Reflection LOVE IS THE CAPACITY TO SEE both the good and evil in people but to love the good; to see both the excellent and mediocre but to encourage the excellent; to see the wellness and the sickness and to strengthen the wellness. Before all else, love is the capacity to see everyone and everything [...]

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Today I Will Laugh
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:01:18 +0000

Saturday’s Reflection O LORD, I feel your presence in the sweet fragrance of laughter. Gentle laughter that makes old eyes sparkle again. When I am down, its infectious sound lifts me up. Thank you for laughter that smooths the sharp rocks of life. Today I will laugh with unrestrained joy! Joyful, joyful, we adore thee! - [...]

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The Storms of Life
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:39 +0000

Friday’s Reflection GRACIOUS LORD, you are my shelter against the burning heat of the day and the storms of life: help me when I stumble, catch me when I fall, and guide my steps firmly in faith toward the promise of eternal life, through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. - Paul Wesley Chilcote A Life-Shaping Prayer: 52 Meditations [...]

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Nurture Hope
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:04 +0000

Thursday’s Reflection HOPE DOES NOT build on certainty. To hope means we cannot be completely sure. There are no guarantees. Coming to God with a mixture of hope and excitement is normal and human. We may even experience less welcome feelings alongside hope, such as anxiety, fear, and distrust. But those feelings are acceptable. God [...]

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Daily Light on the Daily Path: English Standard Version Bible

Daily Light for November 21

Morning

“Whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”

“If he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.”—“I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.”—“I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.”

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”—“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”—“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench.

John 6:37; Ex. 22:27; Lev. 26:44; Ezek. 16:60; Isa. 1:18; Isa. 55:7; Luke 23:42, 43; Isa. 42:3 (Read full verses...)

Evening

His beloved Son.

Behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”—Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights.—The only God, who is at the Father's side.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. . . . So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love.

“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”—See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God.

Col. 1:13; Matt. 3:17; Isa. 42:1; John 1:18; 1 John 4:9, 10, 16; John 17:22, 23; 1 John 3:1 (Read full verses...)

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Excerpted from Daily Light on the Daily Path ©2002 Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.


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