by Lynne Marie | Feb 28, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Genesis 12: 1-4 tells us that it all began with the event of God’s intervening in history to form a special relationship with one man—Abraham—and his descendants. This relationship was a covenant that committed God to take an active, guiding role in human...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 28, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Deuteronomy 26: 16-19: A principle of American jurisprudence is: “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” For Christians, to seek knowledge of God’s law is a commitment. Moses told the People, “Today you are making this agreement with the Lord: he is to be your God, and...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 27, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Ezekiel 18: 21-28 basically tells us that God doesn’t keep books. Many of us grew up thinking God keeps all our sins recorded in a big ledger, along with all the good things we do to make up for them. At the “judgment,” when we die, God subtracts one from the other,...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 26, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Esther chapter C (after chapter 4), verses 12, 14-16, 23-25, shows us what it means to live a lifestyle inexplicable to those who do not recognize the empowering presence of grace—the divine life of God—in us. Esther laid it out before God: “I am alone and have no...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 25, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Jonah 3: 1-10 is a story of conversion. That is what Lent is all about and what the Liturgy of the Word calls us to: metanoia. We translate the word as “repentance,” but it literally means more: a “change of mind,” a “complete makeover” of all that determines who...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 24, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Isaiah 55: 10-11 tells us how he does it: God saves us through his “word”: “It will not return to me void, but shall… achieve the end for which I sent it.” This is not just God’s creative word. He compares it to the “rain and snow” that “water the earth, making...
