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By iucc on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 : 137 Views
Today's reflection by Nicole Lamarche: When we pour out our praise and love spills out into God, I wonder if God’s very being is added to in some way.
By iucc on Monday, February 08, 2010 : 269 Views
Today's reflection by Lillian Daniel: I am grateful to all the people who were told, “Sit down and shut up,” and didn’t.
By iucc on Sunday, February 07, 2010 : 215 Views
Today's reflection by Tony Robinson: A friend likes to say, “When you’re at the end of your rope, there’s a reason you’re there, let go.” That doesn’t mean giving up. It means remembering who’s on first, and that it’s not you (or me).
By iucc on Saturday, February 06, 2010 : 244 Views
Today's reflection by Bill Green: In our rebellion we can become stubborn, disowning a lot of ourselves while remaining haunted by it.
By iucc on Friday, February 05, 2010 : 264 Views
Today's reflection by Abigail Hastings: O God, create in me a clean heart, that I might be open to the possibility of changed lives through you.
By iucc on Thursday, February 04, 2010 : 295 Views
Today's reflection by Martin Copenhaver: It can seem like people never really change, at least not in any fundamental way. But sometimes it just seems that way because, in our perceptions, we have not allowed them to change.
By iucc on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 : 304 Views
Today's reflection by Felix Carrion: Those who arrive here find that their tossings and tears were the mysterious passageway that led them through the labyrinth of life to trust God.
By iucc on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 : 255 Views
Today's reflection by Shawnthea Monroe: Paul's words invite me to stop asking "Why did this happen?" and start asking, "How can I help?"
By iucc on Monday, February 01, 2010 : 231 Views
Today's reflection by Quinn Caldwell: God, when you send a messenger to teach me about you, give me the grace to listen, regardless of whether she's one of us or one of them.
By iucc on Sunday, January 31, 2010 : 252 Views
Today's reflection by Kenneth Samuel: Waiting on the Lord does not put our dreams on indefinite hold. Waiting on the Lord places our dreams on an immediate process of unfolding.
By iucc on Saturday, January 30, 2010 : 286 Views
Reflection by Martin Copenhaver: You may get all tongue-tied when you try to explain what your faith means to you. You may feel inarticulate or shy or uncertain. That's okay. All you need to be able to say is this: "Come and see."
By iucc on Friday, January 29, 2010 : 297 Views
Today's reflection by Donna Schaper: O God, take me to the new normal that loves summer and winter, dark and light, others and myself.
By iucc on Thursday, January 28, 2010 : 273 Views
Today's reflection by Christina Villa: Dear God, let every day have at least a little Sunday in it.
By iucc on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 : 250 Views
Today's reflection by Kenneth Samuel: Thank God that the spirit of Simon's mother-in-law lives on in the hearts of all the faithful servants who realize that their healing is actually an opportunity to help heal others.
By iucc on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 : 338 Views
Today's reflection by Lillian Daniel: Sometimes we have to go through a little godly grief to arrive at God’s calling for us. And sometimes we have to shake loose from the worldly grief that takes us nowhere.
By iucc on Monday, January 25, 2010 : 342 Views
Today's reflection by Ron Buford: Let us take God’s Presence, Spirit, and Jesus’ embodiment into the world and be clear. Someone’s life today may depend on it--perhaps without you knowing.
By iucc on Sunday, January 24, 2010 : 322 Views
Today's reflection by Anthony Robinson: God’s people were so busy telling themselves how special they were that they had forgotten to be God’s people.
By iucc on Saturday, January 23, 2010 : 258 Views
Today's reflection by Quinn Caldwell: Don’t know how to pray? Ask God for help. Got no words of your own? Use the Psalmist’s; that’s what they’re for.
By iucc on Friday, January 22, 2010 : 255 Views
Today's reflection by Bill Green: This we know about being perfect in the sense Jesus intended: We're to be "complete," not half-hearted or half-present in our faith and behavior.
By iucc on Thursday, January 21, 2010 : 321 Views
Today's reflection by Andrew Warner: Holy One, we thank you for prophets in every age who help us to know that your favor eclipses our own imagination.
By iucc on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 : 319 Views
Today's reflection by Ron Buford: Make up your mind today to not only savor the good times for yourself, but to give such moments away to someone you love . . . today.
By iucc on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 : 293 Views
Today's reflection by Martin Copenhaver: The presence of Song of Solomon in the Bible reminds us that we can have God, all the higher expressions of love, and still have our romance too.
By iucc on Monday, January 18, 2010 : 327 Views
Today's reflection by Anthony Robinson: Martin Luther King invited those he led and influenced to embrace a new way of being in the world. Victims were transformed into victors.
By iucc on Sunday, January 17, 2010 : 232 Views
Today's reflection by Lillian Daniel: have always delighted that the first miracle Jesus performs is the result of his mother's imagination.
By iucc on Saturday, January 16, 2010 : 301 Views
Today's reflection by Martin Copenhaver: If we postpone little pleasures at our peril, how much more perilous is our tendency to put off doing what is truly important in life.
By iucc on Friday, January 15, 2010 : 1087 Views
Prayers for Haiti: May I be a small instrument in the turning of history toward justice and wholeness.
By iucc on Friday, January 15, 2010 : 279 Views
Today's reflection by Jared Rardin: Don't wait to see the evidence that God's good news is coming. Be the evidence that God's good news is already here!
By iucc on Thursday, January 14, 2010 : 325 Views
Today's reflection by Quinn Caldwell: God, grant me the grace to create a landscape of grace in my life, in which you are the height and the center.
By iucc on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 : 323 Views
Today's reflection by William C. Green: God, whose love uplifts us all, may we look up to each other, whoever and wherever we are on life’s journey.
By iucc on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 : 289 Views
Today's reflection by Donna Schaper: What a wonderful future you have yet in store for us and for our grandchildren.
By iucc on Monday, January 11, 2010 : 282 Views
Today's reflection by Kenneth Samuel: The name of God still has the power to lift us despite our downfalls and to redeem us despite our unworthiness.
By iucc on Sunday, January 10, 2010 : 249 Views
Today's reflection by Stella Schoen: Thank you God, for your support and guidance which is ever present. Thank you for the people in our lives who have demonstrated your care and compassion.
By iucc on Friday, December 18, 2009 : 439 Views
Today's reflection by Martin Copenhaver: Why do we have so many names for God? Quite simply, each name says something about God, but not all that can be said. So we draw on a rich treasure-store of many names.
By iucc on Thursday, December 17, 2009 : 337 Views
Today's reflection by Christina Villa: For most of us, what is better and more lasting are things like our faith, our family, the people in our lives.
By iucc on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 : 321 Views
Today's reflection by Lillian Daniel: God, thank you for being more patient with us than we deserve. I thank you that you are not a punishing God, but a God of love and mercy.
By iucc on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 : 346 Views
Today's reflection by Felix Carrion: I am convinced that neither John nor Jesus gave any credence to the opinions of their critics. Whether praised or criticized, they simply went on doing what rang true in them.
By iucc on Monday, December 14, 2009 : 287 Views
Today's reflection by Anthony B. Robinson: Today hold in your heart Isaiah's vision of God's Messiah, Jesus, and Isaiah's powerful vision for all leaders: protection of the vulnerable, making the world safer for the least powerful, taming the lions so that the lambs have a chance to live.
By iucc on Sunday, December 13, 2009 : 590 Views
Today's reflection by Quinn Caldwell: This is the way God rolls: flowers spring up in the desert, water flows from rocks, the dead are raised, the barren give birth.
By iucc on Saturday, December 12, 2009 : 313 Views
Today's Reflection by William C. Green: Paul says, not that the Lord is here, but that the Lord is near. God is with us, but that's hard to nail down and quantify. Poverty, oppression, all manner of disorder and disease still prevail. That's measurable. What's immeasurable is God's promise that this will be overcome.
By iucc on Friday, December 11, 2009 : 310 Views
Today's reflection by Donna Schaper: No pebble shall fall to the ground. But what about the boulders? Who can care for them? I mean us. Is God large enough to shake and save both big and small?
By iucc on Thursday, December 10, 2009 : 430 Views
Reflection by Kenneth Samuel: Lord God, we are grateful for the immeasurable gift of your church. Now please give us the commitment to make the spiritual and the material investments that are necessary to build and sustain it for thy glory.
By iucc on Thursday, December 10, 2009 : 499 Views
Reflection by Ron Buford: Joy is the bucket. It draws water from the wells of salvation. Joy is not inappropriate or senseless happiness, frivolity or complacency in tough times. It is hopeful remembrance of God’s Presence and Power on our behalf as we recall survival with God through past tough times.