Minute Meditations

man wearing a t-shirt with the word Peace on the back.

‘Blessed Are the Peacemakers’

Richard B. Patterson, PhD August 4, 2025

Time and again, Jesus challenged the use of violence to resolve issues.

A Hunger for Wholeness

Joseph Grant November 26, 2023

Spirituality affirms a deeper hunger for wholeness, an unquenchable thirst for unanimity.

Healing Season

Joseph Grant November 25, 2023

May great-fullness season your soul and inoculate you with warmth and humility, leaving room around your table for the possibility of healing.

Christ Takes Fragile Flesh

Joseph Grant November 24, 2023

Festooned with jingle-jangle, temples of commerce lure us with sweet indulgences so very good for the economy.

Receive the Day

Joseph Grant November 23, 2023

The way to wellness is found in welcome, not in taking, seizing, grabbing, but in humbly, graciously receiving and freely sharing every gift.

Gathered at the Table

Joseph Grant November 22, 2023

Sooner or later, we all long to be gathered around a table wide, where welcome brings well-being.

A Fuller Flock

Joseph Grant November 21, 2023

May you embrace every prophetic opportunity afforded you this day to be folded back into this fuller flock.

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