DAILY READING Exodus 14:14-15, 26-30 REFLECTION "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" By Katie Borden It feels like a classic cinematic tale, doesn’t it? It’s the “good guys” versus the “bad guys”, and somehow, against all odds, when it looks like all the odds are stacked against them, the “good guys” pull through. Of course, the story of the Exodus of God’s people from Egypt isn’t a tale magnifying the work of the Israelites–the odds really were stacked against them, and there was no “pulling...

DAILY READING John 13 REFLECTION THE END By Katie Borden “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” (v.1) …to the end. This sentence might be one of my favorites in all of the Gospel of John. This phrase sets up a chapter of scripture in which we are given a front-row seat into the events of the evening before Jesus’ death, and how his love for his beloved children is expressed in all of it, all the way to “the end.” From washing the disciples’ feet like a...

DAILY READING Matthew 8:1-4 REFLECTION The Reverse of the Curse By Katie Borden I know a third grade teacher who once had his students participate in an experiment to teach them about the spread of germs… using glitter . One morning, my friend dabbed what seemed like an insignificant amount of glitter into one singular student’s hand, and because third graders don’t keep their hands to themselves, by the end of the day there was glitter everywhere . As in, they were still finding glitter in...