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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, hospitality, and witness in your faith?

Today’s Scripture

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light.—1 Peter 2:9 (CEB)

Prayer for the Week

Lord,Forgive me when I am reluctant to engage as you call me to do. Surround me with a faith community that encourages and challenges me to participate in God’s unfolding drama.