The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.