Bible Verse of the Week--- Titus 3:5: He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Today's Devotion:

1 John 3:2 (New International Version)
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears,we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Today's devotion and Bible verse of the week go together.

• We are saved because of his mercy
• What we will be is, for most of us, still yet to come.
• We will be like him and will see him as he is.

We should continue to pray for his guidance and try to understand his purpose for us. Even if we don't fully understand our purpose, we know that it involves loving Him and our neighbors. Right there is a good start.

Today's Comments:

I have been nursing a bad knee. It is possibly arthritis and may be pain that I will have to live with. Next Sunday night, my church is putting on a barbecue for all the Episcopal Churches in our deanery (local area). Most of those churches are liberal in view and disagree with the conservative views of my parish, Blessed Sacrament. However, we are making the effort to meet with them, and, at my request, part of the service, before hand, will focus on both individual healing and healing of the church, as we take a lesson from the Epistle of James.