The ability to work and to care for one’s responsibilities in the world is a divine gift and assignment. Everyone should be working; no one should be unemployed lest that person chooses to be. Your encouragement today: cherish work and make sure everyone has the opportunity to do so. (Genesis 2:15)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

We have been assigned to care for creation and all that is in it. May we do our part to be found faithful. Your encouragement today: always take care of God’s creation.  In doing so, we will find ourselves cared for. (Genesis 2:8-15)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

It is God who is life and brings life to all creation and all situations. Your encouragement today: rejoice in the God who gives you life! (Genesis 2:5-7)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

Do not hesitate to declare the things we have witnessed God create and bring to pass. Our accounts are powerful, and reveal how wide and deep and life giving and life transforming our God is. Your encouragement today: constantly give account to the creative goodness and majesty of God in your life!(Genesis 2:4)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

Rest days are blessed days. Embrace rest and our work will be blessed. Your encouragement today:  live into a balanced work/rest rhythm. (Genesis 2:3)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

Don’t feel guilty for taking time to rest. God blesses rest. After six days of creative, detailed, dedicated work, God blesses a day of set aside, selfish, sanctified rest. We need it to stay in divine rhythm. Your encouragement today:  rest. And feel good about it! (Genesis 2:2)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

Even God rested. And so rest, too, is required of us. In fact, the first day of our existence as humans was a day of rest. Your encouragement today: find time to rest. In fact, make it a regular rhythm. (Genesis 2:1-2)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

We are blessed by God. In this blessing, God grants fruitfulness, increase, and authority over aspects of God’s creation. May we be found faithful with the blessings in which we have been entrusted. Your encouragement today: be faithful. (Genesis 1:28-31)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

God manifests God’s image in all human creation. It’s a beautiful thing to see. It’s the beauty that is us. So when we look at one another today, look for that beauty and cherish it. Your encouragement today:  beauty is all around you. And even in you. It’s divine. Look for it and appreciate it! (Genesis 1:27)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

God had the audacity to create us in God’s own image. Lord!  That means among many things that God always has great intentions for us. Your encouragement today:  keep living into those intentions and we will discover amazing things! (Genesis 1:24-27)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

One of the beautiful things about God is that God’s creation keeps on creating. It is an amazing thing to know that God is doing something new in, through, and around us all the time. Your encouragement today: don’t stop creating. There are creative ideas percolating in you that the world needs to experience! (Genesis 1:20-23)#stayencouraged!...  Read More

Darkness has a purpose. But so does light.  Each plays a role in governing God’s creation.  Thanks be to God that the greater light shows us the possibilities of day while the lesser light reminds us that even in darkness, God‘s light shines. Your encouragement today: always be hopeful because the light of Christ is shining on you!  (Genesis 1:14-19)#stayencouraged!...  Read More