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Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
February 03, 2024
After being diagnosed with a brain tumor Christina Costa noticed how much of the talk around facing cancer is dominated by the language of fighting She found that this metaphor quickly started to feel exhausting She ldquo didn rsquo t want to spend over a year at war with her own body rdquo Instead what she found most helpful were daily practices of gratitude mdash for the team of professionals caring for her and for the ways her brain and body were showing healing She experienced firsthand that no matter how difficult the struggle practices of gratitude can help resist [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
November 27, 2023
ldquo A thorn has entered your foot mdash that is why you weep at times at night rdquo wrote Catherine of Sienna in the fourteenth century She continued ldquo There are some in this world who can pull it out The skill that takes they have learned from God rdquo Catherine devoted her life to cultivating that ldquo skill rdquo and is still remembered today for her remarkable capacity for empathy and compassion for others in their pain nbsp That image of pain as a deeply embedded thorn that requires tenderness and skill to remove lingers with me It rsquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
October 30, 2023
There are several Canada goose families with baby geese at the pond near our apartment complex The little goslings are so fluffy and cute it rsquo s hard not to watch them when I go for a walk or run around the pond But I rsquo ve learned to avoid eye contact and give the geese a wide berth mdash otherwise I risk a protective goose parent suspecting a threat and hissing and chasing me The image of a bird protecting her young is one that Scripture uses to describe God rsquo s tender protective love for His children Psalm [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 22, 2023
It rsquo s like living in a dream you can rsquo t wake up from People who struggle with what rsquo s sometimes called ldquo derealization rdquo or ldquo depersonalization rdquo often feel like nothing around them is quite real While those who chronically have this feeling can be diagnosed with a disorder it rsquo s believed to be a common mental health struggle especially during stressful times But sometimes the feeling persists even when life is seemingly good It rsquo s as if our minds can rsquo t trust that good things are really happening Scripture describes a similar [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 12, 2023
It was impossible not to tear up at my friend Ira rsquo s status update Posted in only days after she rsquo d left her home in the besieged capital of Ukraine Kyiv she shared a past image of herself lifting her country rsquo s flag after completing a running event She wrote ldquo We are all running to the best of our abilities a marathon called life Let rsquo s run it these days even better than that With something that never dies in our hearts rdquo In the following days I saw the many ways my friend continued [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 13, 2023
Christian consciousness begins in the painful realization that what we had assumed was the truth is in fact a lie rdquo Eugene Peterson wrote in his powerful reflections on Psalm Psalm is the first of the ldquo psalms of ascent rdquo Psalms ndash sung by pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem And as Peterson explored in nbsp A Long Obedience in the Same Direction nbsp InterVarsity Press nbsp nbsp these psalms also offer us a picture of the spiritual journey toward God That journey can only begin with profound awareness of our need for something different As Peterson puts it [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
August 08, 2022
Reflecting one day on why God values humility so highly sixteenth-century believer Teresa of Avila suddenly realized the answer ldquo It is because God is the supreme Truth and humility is the truth nothing good in us springs from ourselves Rather it comes from the waters of grace near which the soul remains like a tree planted by a river and from that Sun which gives life to our works rdquo Teresa concluded that it rsquo s by prayer that we anchor ourselves in that reality for ldquo the whole foundation of prayer is humility The more we humble ourselves [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
July 26, 2022
In his classic book The Human Condition Thomas Keating shares this memorable tale A teacher having lost the key to his home is on his hands and knees searching through the grass When his disciples see him searching they join the hunt but with no success Finally ldquo one of the more intelligent disciples rdquo asks ldquo Master have you any idea where you might have lost the key rdquo Their teacher replies ldquo Of course I lost it in the house rdquo When they exclaim ldquo Then why are we looking for it out here rdquo he answers ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 09, 2022
After receiving the devastating diagnosis of a rare and incurable brain cancer Caroline found renewed hope and purpose through providing a unique service volunteering photography services for critically ill children and their families Through this service families could capture the precious moments shared with their children both in grief and ldquo the moments of grace and beauty we assume don rsquo t exist in those desperate places In the hardest moments imaginable those families choose to love despite and because of it all rdquo There rsquo s something unspeakably powerful about capturing the truth of grief mdash both the devastating [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
March 28, 2022
It was a hard day when my husband found out that like so many others he too would soon be furloughed from employment as a result of the COVID pandemic We knew that we likely had no reason to fear that our basic needs would not be met but the uncertainty was still terrifying As I processed my jumbled emotions I found myself revisiting a favorite poem by sixteenth-century reformer John of the Cross Entitled ldquo I Went In I Knew Not Where rdquo the poem depicts the wonder to be found in a journey of surrender when going ldquo [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
January 28, 2022
ldquo Perfectionism is one of the scariest words I know rdquo Kathleen Norris writes thoughtfully contrasting modern-day perfectionism with the ldquo perfection rdquo described in Matthew Modern-day perfectionism she describes as a ldquo a serious psychological affliction that makes people too timid to take necessary risks rdquo But the word translated ldquo perfect rdquo in Matthew actually means mature complete or whole Norris concludes ldquo To be perfect is to make room for growth and become mature enough to give ourselves to others rdquo Understanding perfection this way helps makes sense of the profound story told in Matthew where a [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
December 27, 2021
ldquo The shepherd needs great wisdom and a thousand eyes rdquo wrote the beloved church father John Chrysostom ldquo to examine the soul rsquo s condition from every angle rdquo Chrysostom wrote these words as part of a discussion on the complexity of caring well for others spiritually Since it rsquo s impossible to force anyone to heal he emphasized reaching others rsquo hearts requires great empathy and compassion But that doesn rsquo t mean never causing pain Chrysostom cautioned because ldquo if you behave too leniently to one who needs deep surgery and do not make a deep incision [... more]
Our Daily Bread Ministries
Various Hosts
May 06, 2021
In the past year or so a number of authors have urged believers to take a fresh look at the ldquo vocabulary rdquo of our faith One writer for example emphasized that even theologically rich words of faith can lose their impact when through overfamiliarity and overuse we lose touch with the depths of the gospel and our need for God When that happens he suggested we may need to relearn the language of faith ldquo from scratch rdquo letting go of our assumptions until we can see the good news for the first time The invitation to learn to [... more]
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