Weekly Inspiration 10/1/2026
There is a wide-open place of many possibilities to which we can be opened, and to which we can open others in the household of God’s creatures. We can begin with the ways we lift other-than-human creatures up to God in prayer and in active remembrance that our humanity subsists in relationship to their creaturehood in its astonishing complexity, diversity, and belovedness.
Br. Keith Nelson
Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Cornerstone
by Steve Garnaas-Holmes
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
—Matthew 21.42 (Ps. 118.22)
The builders, mind you, will continue to reject it.
The market will account it as nothing.
The empire will neglect it at best,
more likely denounce it.
Your own instinct will be to distrust it,
your thinking will pass over it.
Face it: the grace of God has no place in this world,
no belonging, no authority.
It is misfit. Outcast.
Oddity at best, perhaps a threat.
Which is to say,
it is sheer mystery, pure gift,
and constant miracle.
Those who rely upon God's grace
will be scorned, and ridiculed,
and also saved.
Choose bravely.