Piloting Faith: This moment calls for social poets...

A Word for the Day...

The great spiritual migration we need cannot simply be a matter of strategies and structures, as important as those are. Rather, as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy and peace. The season is changing, and it is time to rise.

- Brian McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

Prayer for the Week

God of all that is good,

We confess today our tendency to wander, to fall back on the same old patterns even when they bring the same old harm.

May we find comfort in remembering that you were also tempted. You know what it's like to have temptation parade before you all the glittering alternatives that lead to gloom in the end. You were faithful. Help us be faithful, too.

Throughout this day, draw us into your mind and heart. May we thrive in the simple joy of your presence - listening for your leading, remembering your goodness, turning away again and again from exits to nowhere.

Thank you for your promise to show us the real way out - and help us to take it. When we are powerless, raise us up. Carry us to safety.

Amen.

(adapted from The Prayer Wheel by Patton Dodd, Jana Riess and David Van Biema)