Think about the loneliest, most isolated person you know.  Text, email or call that person today and check up on him/her. Click here for today’s reading: Matthew 7:7-12 Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.  This is the law and the prophets. It’s so obvious, and yet sometimes it’s so hard to want for others what we want for ourselves. My favorite example is this. On a freeway, somebody goes speeding past us and down the road. The person gets pulled over. How many times have we thought or said: “Good. He deserved it.”  Ah, but what about the time we were in a hurry…

Write down the first three words that come to mind when you think of the word holy. Are the words about God, me, or someone else? Think about them for 5 minutes. What do these words mean to you? Do any of these words apply to people you know, who you think are holy? What can we do to be more holy people?  Click here for today’s reading:  “Speak to the whole Assembly… and tell them: Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God am holy.”  Holiness means hanging enough with God to let God’s ways and perspective rub off on us.  But God’s a sneaky one.  If we hang…