The Gift of a Lift

Today’s Reflection

Sometimes we can only wait in hope on the provision of a holy energy that seems beyond our own to give us the lift for which we hunger.

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

Today’s Question

When have you sensed a need for the divine provision of strength beyond your known resources? How did that provision come? Join the conversation.

Today’s Scripture

He gives power to the faint,and strengthens the powerless.Even youths will faint and be weary,and the young will fall exhausted;but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,they shall mount up with wings like eagles,they shall run and not be weary,they shall walk and not faint.—Isaiah 40:29-31 (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.