May we establish ourselves in the sturdy love of God, and then live with hearts and lives overflowing with that same source of all Life and Light, abounding with thanksgiving!

I take deep comfort in this promise. The Lord is good. His love endures. Forever. I’ve known the enduring love of God most of my life, and I’ve seen Him show up on mountaintops and in deep valleys, in the most mundane moments, and in the moments of failure and falling.

So often, God has turned my deepest places of pain, into my deepest memories of His presence and my most powerful stories of His power to weep with us and remind us that the weeping is never the end. Lord, shape me into the kind of person who sings through tears and laughter, who holds onto the hope that runs deeper than our deepest sorrows, and who can accept the both/and of what is happening here in this broken world, AND what is promised in the world to come, the kingdom coming. Help me to bear witness to that hope.

There’s good news! Don’t forget it. Don’t forget His love. I pray this season of Thanksgiving is marked with thousands of remembrances of how you are deeply LOVED by God.

Thank you God for leading us all in a kind and tenderhearted way. Thank you for the forgiveness you so freely offer to all of us. May we be people marked by kindness, tender hearts, and a deep and wide forgiveness that brings healing and wholeness to ourselves and our communities.

It is such a comfort to me that even on my weakest days, I have a place I can go for strength.

The world is full of light and beauty, and I’ve been drinking it in all in this week.

What a gift, and the invitation is a wide open door, to allow God's strength to hold me me up, to allow the story of how God's LOVE rescues and redeems become the song my heart sings, and to choose to trust that over all the fear that so often rattles within my heart.