ICYMI: In Good Company: Dorothy Day
If you missed Sunday's service or could use a refresher, here's a quick recap featuring a song from Sunday on Spotify, the sermon's main point, a key quotation, a prayer, and our weekly Next Step Practice. Scroll to the bottom for the full sermon recording.
📖 Focal Scripture
🎯 Reflection
Just as Jesus raised the widow's son in Nain, Dorothy Day's life demonstrates the power of overcoming fear to love others deeply, urging us to reflect on our own fears and consider how proximity to those in need can break down barriers and bring about resurrection in our lives and communities.
🗣️ Key Quotation
“Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may at any moment become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself, ‘What else is the world interested in?’ What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships. God is Love. Love casts out fear. Even the most ardent revolutionist, seeking to change the world, to overturn the tables of the money changers, is trying to make a world where it is easier for people to love, to stand in that relationship with each other of love… The keenness and intensity of love brings with it suffering, of course, but joy too because it is a foretaste of heaven." — Dorothy Day
🙏 Prayer
Jesus, thank you for people like Fred Rogers who have been an example of your love and grace. Help me to receive your unconditional love and acceptance. Let it fill me so that I may share it with my neighbors. Amen.
➡️ Next Step
What is the fear keeping you from moving closer to Jesus and those whom Jesus loves? Then, inspired by Dorothy Day, this week, do one thing that moves you toward that fear and thus toward resurrection.
