Message of Hope

Today’s Reflection

I see more now when I pay attention, which I often do not, and I am more overwhelmed by beauty that I now realize has nothing to do with me at all—except as it brings me half-understood messages of God’s goodness.

—Roberta C. Bondi, Wild Things: Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude (Upper Room Books, 2014)

Today’s Question

What might God want you to notice today as a message of hope?

Today’s Scripture

Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us,

even as we hope in you.

—Psalm 33:22 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

Creator God, as you draw us closer to you, draw us closer to each other. Amen.