Today’s Reflection Compassionate care restores both others and ourselves. It reconciles us to the love that soothes the soul and sustains the spirit. Through it, we move to healing rhythms. With the power of God, we are lifted up into life. —Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, Revised Edition (Upper Room Books, 2026) Today’s Question When have you offered reconciliation to someone in your life? What did it take to heal both people? Today’s Scripture “F

Today’s Reflection By prioritizing time and space with God and learning the ways you best connect with your Creator, you may find you already have everything you need to listen for God. —Whitney R. Simpson, Holy Listening with Breath, Body, and the Spirit (Upper Room Books, 2016) Today’s Question How do you best connect to God? Prioirtize spending five minutes like that with God today. Join the conversation. Today’s Scripture Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I

Today’s Reflection A life with God invites you to be honest with yourself—to admit your weaknesses and tender spots. It also asks that you allow yourself to be shaped into the likeness of Christ in order not only to better yourself but also to better the world around you. —Whitney R. Simpson, Holy Listening with Breath, Body, and the Spirit (Upper Room Books, 2016) Today’s Question Is it difficult for you to be honest about your weaknesses? Today’s Scripture The Spirit helps

Today’s Reflection “It is I, the might and goodness of fatherhood. It is I, the wisdom and kindness of motherhood. It is I, the light and the grace that is all blessed love. It is I, the Trinity. It is I, the Unity.” —Edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Julian of Norwich (Upper Room Books, 2017) Today’s Question There are many ways people describe God: Mother, Father, Friend, Light, Bread of Life, etc. What descriptions of God do y

Today’s Reflection Jesus’ way of radical compassion aligns our spirit with the Divine Spirit that brings life out of death, hope in the face of despair, love within the lethal contagion of hate in our world. —Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, Revised Edition (Upper Room Books, 2026) Today’s Question How can you show compassion to someone who is in the throws of death, despair, or hate? Today’s Scripture Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgivin

Today’s Reflection For I saw no anger except on our part, and God forgives that in us, for anger is nothing but a perversity and contrariness to peace and love. It comes from a lack of strength or lack of wisdom or lack of goodness. —Edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Julian of Norwich (Upper Room Books, 2017) Today’s Question When have you seen God show mercy instead of anger? How did it affect you? Today’s Scripture The Lord, th

Today’s Reflection “Lord, you know what I want and, if it is your will, that I might have it. And if it is not your will, good Lord, do not be displeased, for I will only as you will.” —Edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Julian of Norwich (Upper Room Books, 2017) Today’s Question Do you want only what God wants for you and those around you? How can you know what God’s will is? Today’s Scripture Do not be conformed to this age, but

Today’s Reflection When Jesus comes back, there’s going to be a huge party . . . It’ll be called the feast of life. And what’s really cool about this party is that everyone in the world is invited—not just friends and family but strangers too. —Frank Rogers Jr., Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, Revised Edition (Upper Room Books, 2026) Today’s Question Who are you most excited to dine with at Jesus’ table? Who will you have to learn to dine cheerfully with? Today’s Sc

Today’s Reflection Love requires us to recognize and receive what is really there and to perceive how God dwells in the other. It can be difficult to abide the seeing, not because it is so challenging but because it is so wondrous. —Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer (Upper Room Books, 2010) Today’s Question When have you been able to see the wondrous glory of God dwelling in another person? Today’s Scripture I will place my dw

Today’s Reflection The kind of drinking that Jesus invites us to is not the polite, sipping from our teacups with pinkies extended kind of drinking. It’s a drinking that drenches us, that causes rivers of living water to flow out of our hearts. —Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer (Upper Room Books, 2010) Today’s Question How have the “rivers of living water” led to places or people you didn’t expect? Today’s Scripture Jesus res

Today’s Reflection I take the idea of baptism pretty seriously. I don’t fully understand it, but that itself seems to make sense to me, that it would be a little difficult to wrap my mind around a sacrament, a means by which somehow God continually reveals God’s self to humanity. —Enuma Okoro, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for Spiritual Community (Fresh Air Books, 2010) Today’s Question How does baptism prompt you to participate in God

Today’s Reflection [The early] church is off to a great start. The Lord adds to their numbers daily. They are on a roll. Despite the amazing successes, the [Christian] movement faces internal and external pressures. With explosive growth comes many new challenges. —Linda Tower Pevey, We Are the Church … Let’s Act Like It: A Study on the Book of Acts (Upper Room Books, 2019) Save 15% on this week’s featured book when you use promo code NEM0526 at Store.UpperRoom.org.* Today’s

Today’s Reflection We can join hands with a great cloud of witnesses and be certain that God remains present throughout our suffering and pain, nurturing us and giving spiritual growth to all who move from despair to hope. —John R. Wimmer, Blessed Endurance: Moving Beyond Despair to Hope (Upper Room Books, 2017) Today’s Question What difficult experiences have you endured? What insights did you gain? Today’s Scripture We are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us

Today’s Reflection Doubt and agonizing questions can only exist where we find profound love and respect—and God loves us and respects us enough to allow, and even welcome, our doubts and questions. —John R. Wimmer, Blessed Endurance: Moving Beyond Despair to Hope (Upper Room Books, 2017) Today’s Question What question do you want to ask God today? Today’s Scripture As a deer longs for flowing streams,so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God,for the living God.—

Today’s Reflection Abba Macarius was asked, “How should one pray?” The old man said, “There is no need at all to make long discourses; it is enough to stretch out one’s hands and say, ‘Lord, as you will, and as you know, have mercy.’ And if the conflict grows fiercer, say, ‘Lord, help!’ God knows very well what we need and shows us mercy.” —Edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of the Desert Fathers & Mothers (Upper Room Books, 2017) To

Today’s Reflection No one ever told me that church community was important, that crossing the threshold into new life with God had anything to do with anyone else but me. In my interpretation, I was still the center of the universe. Even if it was God’s. —Enuma Okoro, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for Spiritual Community (Fresh Air Books, 2010) Today’s Question How does centering God and church community in your life change the way you

Today’s Reflection While becoming theologically educated, new words like beauty, creativity, and delight had seeped into my language of faith, and I needed to think through their compatibility with the more traditional words. —Enuma Okoro, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for Spiritual Community (Fresh Air Books, 2010) Today’s Question How do words like beauty, creativity, and delight sit alongside traditional words like baptism, hospital

We are a Pentecost people By the Rev. Tiffany McDonald Share Christians celebrate the birthday of the Church on Pentecost. It is a reminder of Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit descends, as Jesus promised, and many people came to believe. “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared

Today’s Reflection The practice of stability impels us to find something worth giving ourselves to for a long, long time—a place, a community, a person, a path—and in that, to grow deeper in relationship with the God who dwells there. —Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer (Upper Room Books, 2010) Today’s Question How might you encounter God through the practice of stability in this season? Today’s Scripture But me? It’s good for

Today’s Reflection I know the places in my soul where the past makes its presence known, the occasions when memories surface, inviting my attention, encouraging me to see within them what I had not seen before. They come bearing comfort, or they come to offer questions. —Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer (Upper Room Books, 2010) Today’s Question As you reflect on your choices, what encouragement do you find in God’s grace at e