The Miracle of Love

Friday’s Reflection

CHRIST SUFFERED on our behalf, and in the power of the Resurrection, can change all our sorrows into part of that same miracle of love. In Christ, and with him and through him, supported by his own courage and humility and trust, we need only to “admit the wound” and our own helplessness to heal it. Then, even our most mortal wounds can become the doors by which we enter life.

- Deborah Smith Douglas
Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life

From pages 21-22 of Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life, March/April 2000, vol. XV, no. 2. Copyright © 2000 by The Upper Room. All rights reserved. Used by permission. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

What wounds do you need to admit helplessness over and release to Christ’s healing power? Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

1 Peter 1:3-5

This Week: pray for people who need to experience the love of God anew. Add your prayer to the Prayer Wall.
Tips for Your Spirit:
The Lord is Risen; the tears of grief have given way to tears of joy. We have entered The Season of Easter.

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Saints, Inc.:
This week we remember Catherine of Siena (April 29).
Lectionary Readings:

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