New Beginnings

Today’s Reflection

Changes activate our curiosity about how God may be at work in our circumstances. Changes also challenge us to become creative meaning-makers in our new circumstances. In this way we collaborate with God in making a way in the wilderness.

—Susan Carol Scott,  Still Praying After All These Years: Meditations for Later Life (Upper Room Books, 2019)

Today’s Question

What are some ways you’ve made it through changes in your life with the help of God and others? Join the conversation.

Today’s Scripture

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.I am about to do a new thing;now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.—Isaiah 43:18-19 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

Sustainer of all that is, give me faith that hopes in what I cannot see. Thank you for the small miracles that find me each day. Amen.Submit your prayer to The Upper Room.