Each week we offer a spiritual reflection that relates Scripture and faith to our everyday lives.
I can’t predict the future, but if I respond wholeheartedly to life’s events, both good and challenging, I’ll continue to grow into the person God created me to be. What I shall be has not yet been revealed. I do know that when it is revealed I shall be like Christ.
Read MorePalm Sunday shows us the extremes of human experiences as Jesus is celebrated but then betrayed, condemned, and executed. We see how fast things can change – in this Passion story and in our own lives too. However, through all of life’s joys and sorrows, we can trust that God is with us. And when the intensity of it all feels like too much to hold, God holds us.
Read MoreHaving a troubled heart is a human experience. It comes from looking darkness in the face and moving into it despite how hard it is. Jesus might not have known how things would work out, but he knew that he could trust the unknown future to a loving God. And so can we.
Read MoreBrokenness is real, but it is redeemable. As community, we can bring our woundedness together, owning our incompleteness, and drawing near each other. God is present when we come together in our brokenness, God who has chosen to be vulnerable too.
Read MoreGod is present to the reality of who we are, even as God calls us to grow. God is certainly in our midst.
Read MoreMay we journey up to the mountaintop with Jesus and his companions and encounter God too. As Jesus revealed the fullness of who he is, may we reveal the fullness of who we are before God and those closest to us. And may we each hear God proclaim that we are God’s beloved too, because we are.
Read MoreGod is very close with us always, and in those hard times, God is still there, even when it doesn’t feel like it. God is always talking to us, always trying to catch our attention, to reassure us, to let us know that God’s with us, that God loves us.
Read MoreThe more that I, and we, live and grow into the fullness of being to which God calls us, the more we belong to God and ourselves. When we belong like that, we’ll find belonging wherever we go.
Read MoreIn these days of burnout, fatigue, and loneliness, how do we resist the temptation to try to be all things to all people? How do we trust that we’re enough because God made us to be enough?
Read MoreIn this story, the people are astonished. I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember the last time I was astonished by something Jesus said or did – in Scripture or in my life. But I want to feel amazed again! How do I open myself to astonishment, awe, wonder?
Read MoreThe Kingdom of God is at hand now, in this moment. All around us there are people with illnesses and struggles, people who are burdened by despair and anxiety. We have work to do; there’s still good news to be proclaimed.
Read MoreLike the Magi, we have each other as travel companions. Community at its best stands together beneath the night sky, gazing at signs from God, and following where they lead. Where shall we go? Let’s discern together.
Read MoreThe invitation of this feast of the Holy Family is to celebrate the family of Jesus as well as our own families — our families of origin and/or our chosen ones. We also lift up the wide family of God, the human family of which we’re all a part. Maybe we didn’t choose each other, but we belong to each other anyway.
Read MoreMay we pray to have what Mary did that enabled to say yes to God, her audacity and courage and trust. May we, too, stay open to what God asks of us and risk when we’re called. And may we step into that life full of grace.
Read MoreGod extends joy to us in abundance, just as God continues to call us to service and justice, healing and consoling. God calls us to do our little piece to bring about peace, and as we serve God and each other, we’ll find our joy.
Read MoreThere are lots of us grown-ups running around caretaking, serving, tending to the needs of other people and not experiencing much comfort ourselves. And yet, it’s a human need. How do we receive a little tenderness for ourselves every now and then?
Read MoreWe can be grateful for what we have and want more. Gratitude helps us to notice all that God has given us, and our desire for more comes from God too. It’s in our desire that God calls us to dream big and to make the world better.
Read MoreGod is everywhere that we are. God is wherever we’ve been. God is wherever we’re going. We might distinguish light and darkness, but God is just always fully present with us, showing us how to navigate the darkness and the light.
Read MoreGod doesn’t ask us to deny our heartbreaks, but God does want to protect us from the further harm that comes from ruminating on negativity. Life brings hard things, but it also offers things which are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and worthy of praise. What if we spend some of our prayer reflecting on the good in our lives and some of it sharing the difficult things with God? “Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard [our] hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Read MoreGod is somewhere within me and you, but God is still God. The fullness of God is more than just me, vastly more. I need to be reminded that God is great Mystery, the omniscient Creator of the universe, that gentle but powerful Presence that cares for me and for all people and creation beyond what we can even imagine.
Read MoreGod Space is a spiritual community, a space of welcome and belonging. We’re not a church, but some of us go to church, and some are more spiritual than religious. However we identify, we come together to explore faith and build connection through small groups, social events, prayer, and community service. Come and connect at God Space. You belong here.
