Taken: claimed
Blessed: always
Broken: yet shining
Given: with joy

Adapted from Life of the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen.

On Sunday, Randy Weldon spoke on the topic “Journey in the Wilderness.” We are blessed to have Randy as a brother in Christ! (Good luck on your first day on your new job!)

Some questions to think about as you begin a new week…

-How do you know you are a chosen child of god? If you don’t know, how could you find out?

-Is it a daily practice for you to identify the ways in which you are blessed? How were you blessed today? What happens when you tell someone else about how you were blessed?

-What lessons have you learned from your broken places? How can you see your broken places as blessings?

-How does God help you to give yourself away? What does this mean to you?