Desmond Tutu – Jackson Community Church

JOY Daily Devotional: Advent 3 – Dec 18

Cultivate joy each day this week. December 18: Joy in Service Scripture: Galatians 5:13 — For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence,[a] but through love become enslaved to one another. Meditation: Joy often arises in the act of serving others with love. […]

Reflections on journeys that involve struggles with demons: Part 2 – Facing fears, naming hurt and healing ourselves, our loved ones and strangers (sometimes through forgiveness)

We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts ― Desmond Tutu Awareness is the first step in healing. — Dean Ornish The wound is the place where the Light enters you. […]

Advent Daily Devotional: WEEK of JOY

House of Joy — Rumi If you knew yourself for even one moment,if you could just glimpseyour most beautiful face,maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeplyin that house of clay.Why not move into your house of joyand shine into every crevice!For you are the secretTreasure-bearer, and always have been.Didn’t you know? Advent Daily Devotional: WEEK of […]

Meditations on joy as the third theme during Advent

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in You, a joy. — Rumi We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy. ― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. — Viktor […]

Reflections on the common table: who has a seat?

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.― Shauna Niequist If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. — Michael Enzi I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the […]