Reflection

“The purpose of religion … is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.”
–Frederick Ward Kates

Prayer

Gracious God,

As a ministry united, we believe you have called each of us to serve as your hands and feet to a world in need. Such an incredible mission should inspire us each day! For if what we call “heaven” is the place where your will is done, then a most humbling thought follows: we have been invited and empowered by you, to bring some measure of heaven to earth as we work to restore wholeness in the lives we encounter. For our own sake and for the sake of all those we have the privilege of serving—our patients and families, neighbors and colleagues, and our surrounding communities—may heaven come down, in and through us, with your grace to sustain us, today! Amen.

Call to Action

Consider the concrete difference my spirituality makes to the world around me. How am I bringing more of the way things should be into the way things are?