Weekly Inspiration 8/13/2026

To be a follower of Jesus is to live a life full of risk. Like him, we must be willing to take the risk of speaking with those deemed unworthy, touching those considered untouchable, breaking bread with those who are despised by others, breaching the walls of respectability. As followers of Jesus, we must take the risk of encountering life where it is lived, and not where we are comfortable.

Br. James Koester

Society of Saint John the Evangelist

by ullie-kaye

I keep thinking about how God could have moved the Red Sea

rather than splitting it in two.

But he didn’t remove the obstacle,

He chose to make a way through it.

And I guess it’s kind of like that

with us too.

The big things that stand in our way

don’t always disappear--

we were never promised that.

We were promised a path where we

never imagined a path.