Author: Lora Walsh

God rolls up his sleeve and flexes some muscle on this Feast of the Annunciation.

Ever wonder why you’ve been made the way you are? Today’s Speaking to the Soul encourages us to ask.

There are many kinds of bread that we will eat in the course of a day, a week, a life. Let’s not forget to eat the bread of life that Jesus offers.

How is God the potter shaping our lives and our communities today?

Paul describes Christians as widows who are open to new life and love in Christ.

Listening is a two-way street in our relationship with God.

Is hope the pre-condition or the end-product of our perseverance through suffering?

Our Psalm for this morning contains one of the most beautiful images of God’s people, telling the whole story of God’s people as if they were a single vine. Imagined as a single vine, God’s people have deep and wide connections with the earth and with one another, though spread across time and space.

Will the world notice we were here today? The gospel makes a case for working in the background of this world.

Today’s gospel reminds us how unobtrusively Jesus sometimes works in our lives: “Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there.”