What if we were all looking for chances today to welcome each other in out of the cold?
“It was cold . . . , so they kindled a fire and welcomed us.” Acts 28:2
Father, please make me welcoming today in thought, word and deed.
at any given moment
When you’re going in the wrong direction, you can choose at any given moment to turn around and start fresh.
“Humbly let go. [L]et go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears.” Ann Voskamp
“And He said . . . ‘How often I have longed to gather [you] as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.’” Luke 13:34
at any given moment
When you’re going in the wrong direction, you can choose at any given moment to turn around and start fresh.
“Humbly let go. [L]et go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears.” Ann Voskamp
“And He said . . . ‘How often I have longed to gather [you] as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.’” Luke 13:34
at any given moment
When you’re going in the wrong direction, you can choose at any given moment to turn around and start fresh.
“Humbly let go. [L]et go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears.” Ann Voskamp
“And He said . . . ‘How often I have longed to gather [you] as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.’” Luke 13:34
ask for watering
Finding yourself parched and thirsty is a very good thing if it invites you to ask for watering.
“Drench with grace our dried-out hearts.” A prayer by Thomas Keating
“The parched ground will become a pool, and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty land.” Isaiah 35:7
look back
Sometimes you don’t know what really happened until you look back.
“I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. . . . [E]verything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my experience, has been through affliction. . . .” Malcolm Muggeridge
“[The Lord] drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me. . . .” Psalm 18:16-17