generosity

Reflect In the Peanuts comic strip, Linus once said, “I love humanity. It’s the people I can’t stand.” How often have we though this, even if we haven’t verbalized it? Humanity is abstract—people are real. They get in our faces with their demands and their smells and their aches. They interrupt our plans, and they […]

Generous Hearts Marcia Shetler Call to Worship One:    For this day set aside to worship you as a gathered faith community, All:      We give you thanks, O God. One:    For your desire to have a relationship with us, your children, All:      We give you thanks, O God. One:    For your saving grace given to us […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Acts 4:23-31 (NRSV) After they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Psalm 133 (NRSV) How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! It is like […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Matthew 20:1-16 (NRSV) “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Psalm 112 (NRSV) Praise the LORD! Happy are those who fear the LORD, who greatly delight in his commandments. Their descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation […]