Coffee & Conversation

Sunday’s Reflection

THE EMMAUS ROAD story teaches what accompaniment means: walking together, sharing in conversation about what really matters, extending hospitality to strangers, breaking bread together. Companions trust that Christ joins us on the journey, reveals God’s love for us in the Word and Table fellowship, and fills us with good courage to go forth in his name. We serve others most profoundly not by giving them things or by doing things for them but by accompanying them on their way.

- Don C. Richter
Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World

From p. 97 of Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World by Don C. Richter. Copyright © 2008 by the author. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

How are you accompanying others on the way? How are you being accompanied? Visit the comments area and share your thoughts.

Today’s Scripture Reading

All the others gave what they’ll never miss; she gave extravagantly what she couldn’t afford–she gave her all.

- Mark 12:44, THE MESSAGE

This Week …

Special Need:

This Week: Pray for caregivers. Add your prayer to the Prayer Wall.

Tips for Your Spirit:

Looking for clarity? Learn the Quaker way of the Clearness Committee to help with making tough decisions. Try it out.

Saints, Inc.:

This week we remember Antoinette Brown Blackwell (November 5).

Lectionary Readings:

• Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
• Psalm 127
• Hebrews 9:24-28
• Mark 12:38-44

Sponsored by The Upper Room daily devotional guide. Subscribe Today.

Copyright © 2009 The Upper Room | PO Box 340004 | Nashville, TN 37203-0004 | USA

Companions on the Way is a post from: Upper Room Daily Reflections

Reminising about vacationing on Cape Cod as a child, the narrator weaves an interesting story about his well educated, professorial parents. He is now a parent and his daughter is getting married there. That is only part of the story. Richard Jusso delves into the personalities of this characters with wit and introspection. This is a departure from my love of mysteries but I enjoyed it very much. By Heather DeVries

From the moment I read my first Pat Conroy book I was hooked. They all are semi-autobiographical page turners. From “The Water is Wide”, “The Geat Santini”, “Prince of Tides, to “Beach Music” I identified, reveled and enjoyed. Now “South of Broad” comes along with the most evil human imaginable and the most wonderful human you wished you could emulate. Now you are warned about the evil, you will still enjoy the goodness and the Southern references, and be reminded of the struggles of integration and the horrors of  the AIDS epidemic.