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  • God's Plan by by Linda J. DuRant, president, South Carolina Conference United Methodist Women
    03/19/2011 Faith in God and God's vision is easy to talk about, but it is more difficult to just turn loose and know that wherever God leads us is where we need to go and to be.
  • Speak Up/Speak Out for Justice by Gladys King-Lucas, Marcy-Newberry Association, Chicago, Ill.
    03/18/2011 Today's reading shows how we can find hope for the future by looking to our past relationship with God and others.
  • A Makeover in the Making by the Rev. Diane Moseley
    03/17/2011 When we live an honest Lent and allow ourselves to walk that hot dusty August road that exists in every heart, may we too be able to acknowledge the "dead ground," the "moonscapes" of our lives. May we be honest enough to find God's Easter joy of "exuberance and laughter, thankful voices and melodic songs."
  • Love to the Least, the Last and the Lost by the Rev. Jane Vaughan, Alpine Community Center, Alpine, Texas
    03/16/2011 When we consider those who nurtured us then we can ask how can we as individuals and as Christian communities respond with love to the least, the last and the lost so that we are not a stumbling block for others.
  • A Homeless Wanderer by Mary Gates, former board chair of Emma Norton Residence, St. Paul, Minn., and former Women’s Division director
    03/15/2011 Many women are homeless or at risk of being homeless when they come to Emma Norton Residence in St. Paul, Minnesota.
  • Called Awake and Fed by Lily Bloom Domingo, Susannah Wesley Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
    03/14/2011 We recognize what it means to be on a long journey facing loneliness and despair. In the face of every "newcomer" is the reflection of ourselves. Each of us can be the living embodiment of God's love and provide the compassion and care that will sustain our brothers and sisters in their long journey.
  • Overcoming Temptation by Richard Gibson
    03/13/2011 The Temptation of Christ in the desert is a well-known lesson in the Christian faith. Although the story took place more than 2,000 years ago, all of us, and especially our youth, face Satan's temptations daily.
  • Give Yourself by Kim Jenkins
    03/12/2011 During this Lenten season, may each of us examine the condition of our own hearts, humbly seek God's mercy, and shower mercy on others through the giving of ourselves to help meet their needs.
  • And Also Much Cattle by Thomas Reppart, Epworth Village, York, Neb.
    03/11/2011 Why does God care for whom he cares? Why for so much of the time does God's job description seem to be to rescue the perishing, care for the dying? Just how does God snatch them in pity from sin and the grave? Why did Jesus weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen? Why should I tell the poor wanderer a Savior has died?
  • Set Apart for the Gospel by the Rev. Elaine Fahrmeier
    03/10/2011 Rev. Fahrmeier became "transformed and reminded that God can touch even the most fragile of little souls and transform them."
  • Ash and Faith: A Reflection on Ash Wednesday by Glory E. Dharmaraj
    03/09/2011 The images associated with Easter and Christmas are visually more pleasing than those associated with Ash Wednesday. The latter is stuck with images of ashes and sackcloth. Aesthetically speaking, ratings drop at these images. We don't give ashes much thought. Perhaps for this reason, marketers do not position their products around ashes and burlap clothes.
  • An Easter Reflection on Mary Magdalene by Harriett Olson
    04/05/2010 Mary Magdalene is in a unique position to observe the resurrection. Perhaps you can identify with Mary, a true boundary-breaker.
  • God is Making All Things New by Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
    03/19/2010 Bishop Hope Morgan Ward shares a story on scripture in a meditation for the Fifth Sunday in Lent.
  • Second Sunday in Lent : February 28th, 2010 by Carmen F.S. Vianese
    03/01/2010 The Philippians struggled with a problem we also face every day: how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in a world that is upside-down and often hostile to our mission and our convictions.
  • A Reflection on Easter by Harriett J. Olson
    04/07/2009 This is one day on which the cynics are wrong. The barrier of human death is revealed as vulnerable and the love of God shows through in glory and in humility.

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