Listening Space

Today’s Reflection

[After a stroke,] my inability to function at a level to which I was previously accustomed—a level our world tells us is relatively healthy—forced me into a listening space with God, one I never could have envisioned for myself.

—Whitney R. Simpson, Holy Listening with Breath, Body, and the Spirit (Upper Room Books, 2016)

Today’s Question

What have you learned from your own weaknesses?

Today’s Scripture

My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.—Psalm 73:26 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

Inhale: JesusExhale: Give me peace.—A “breath prayer” from Holy Listening with Breath, Body, and the Spirit by Whitney R. Simpson