Day 224
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Scripture
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. —Matthew 16:25
Wisdom
Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself. —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Prayer
Open me to the risk of loving, to the still get unknown way of living that aligns with your tenderness for each of us. Amen. —The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster