Weekly Inspiration 8/27/2026

What’s happening in your life? What evil, active or indifferent, makes you mourn? What tempts you, rational or not, to despair? With simple, child-like faith, listen down deep: God is with us, God loves all, and God is healing. Join Jesus in deep trust that grace continues, saying: “thank you.”

Br. Luke Ditewig

Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Unheld

by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

When you fell and skinned your knee

and your mommy kissed it and made it better

it really did make it better.

How much of your agony is not the hurt

but the need for someone to hold you?

Friend, we live in a crowd unheld.

You have been given the heart

to kiss the world better,

to seek the hurting

one child at a time,

and hold them and their hurt.

Do so, and even at a distance, with strangers,

as in any good embrace,

you find yourself miraculously

held.