A Blessing

Wednesday’s Reflection

When your life has become
most frantic,
when fear and worry
have made their home in you
and anxiety attends your days,
may there come
from somewhere
the scent
of Pomegranate and cedar,
apple and myrrh,
cinnamon, frankincense, fig.
—Jan L. Richardson

- Jan Richardson
In the Sanctuary of Women

From page 286, “In the Garden of Delights,” in In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer by Jan L. Richardson. Copyright © 2010 by Jan L. Richardson. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

What smells tend to calm you? Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

1 Peter 3:18-22

This Week: pray for families. Add your prayer to the Prayer Wall.
Tips for Your Spirit:
Why Saints? Observing saints more closely reveals that they were ordinary people just like us. What set them apart was their life purpose. More than anything else, they wanted to know God. So despite their faults and frailties, they have much to teach us. Learn from Saints.
Saints, Inc.:
This week we remember Augustine of Canterbury (May 27).
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