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Prayer of the Day: Nigeria
03-10-2010
In the wake of yet more ethnic violence in Nigeria, we pray to you, Prince of Peace.
Prayer of the Day: Turkey
03-09-2010
For those in Turkey who have been affected by the most recent earthquake, we ask for your mercy. Comfort the mourning, strengthen the tired, bring hope to the hopeless.
Verse of the Day: Judge Fairly
03-09-2010
Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.
Voice of the Day: India Arie
03-09-2010
I am not my hair.
I am not this skin.
I am not your expectations.
I am not my hair.
I am not this skin.
I am a soul that lives within.
Voice of the Day: Dorothy L. Sayers
03-08-2010
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man ...
Prayer of the Day: International Women's Day
03-08-2010
On International Women's Day, we lift up those who, according to the Chinese proverb, hold up half the sky.
Verse of the Day: All Are One in Jesus
03-08-2010
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Verse of the Day: Practice Piety in Secret
03-05-2010
Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Lord in heaven.
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants
03-05-2010
We pray for all those immigrant families who find themselves separated by detention, deportation or death.
Voice of the Day: Kurt Vonnegut
03-05-2010
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center
Prayer of the Day: Our Comfort
03-04-2010
You, God, are our hope and strength; in you we take refuge.
Verse of the Day: How Long, O Lord?
03-04-2010
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.
My soul is also struck with terror ...
O Lord -- how long?
Voice of the Day: Anne Lamott
03-04-2010
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Verse of the Day: Do Everything in Love
03-03-2010
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Voice of the Day: Donald Miller
03-03-2010
I want to keep my soul fertile for changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it's time for them to die.
Prayer of the Day: Gratitude
03-03-2010
For all that you give us, for all that you bless us with, for all that you have done and continue to do for us, in us and through us, we give you thanks and praise.
Prayer of the Day: Nouwen
03-02-2010
Dear God, give me the courage to live and work for a new heaven and a new earth as Jesus did. Give me the freedom to be critical where I see evil and to offer praises where I see good.
Verse of the Day: Christ Brings Peace
03-02-2010
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
- John 14:27
Voice of the Day: Virginia Woolf
03-02-2010
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
Verse of the Day: Support Those in Difficulty
03-01-2010
If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens.