Today’s Scripture reading:  Hebrews 11.8-12 MSG 

Today’s Scripture reading:  Genesis 3.1; 2 Corinthians 11.3; Romans 5.12-14 MSG

If you’re new to this Green Pastures devotional flow, the Saturday entry is usually a bit of a change-up in pace and content. Generally there’s no daily reading and no question prodding personal reflection, only a reading or perhaps a poem or some pertinent musing that serves as something of the capstone to the week’s content – or at least a worthy topping on it all like that proverbial icing on the cake. This week, I can’t help but run an extended portion of that conversation between Frodo and Sam in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (you read the trilogy this week as supplemental content, yes?) as Sam asks what sort of tale it is that they’ve fallen into. So many parallels between them and us – and the tales we have respectively fallen into indeed…

Today’s Scripture reading:  Psalm 8.1-9 MSG 

Today’s Scripture reading:  Genesis 1.1 

Today’s Scripture reading:  1 Corinthians 10.1, 11-12 MSG 

Today’s Scripture reading:  Acts 20.7-12 MSG 

Today’s Scripture reading:  Psalm 78.1-7 MSG

Nine weeks ago, we began this journey of Practicing the Way with a bit of self-reflection – thirty-eight questions worth of it, to be precise – so it only seems appropriate, in keeping with our devotional flow this week – to conclude our time with this journey in this devotional space with some classic self-reflection courtesy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who penned this self-reflective musing while in prison during the last year of his life.

Today’s Scripture reading:  Ecclesiastes 4.7-12 MSG