Word Made Flesh is a contemplative community. One of the ways that we contemplate what God is doing in the world and in our lives is through the reflection articles that we write. We invite you to read, learn, and celebrate with us.
The Cry for Submission: Letter from the Editor by Emily Fales
Creating Policies that Limit Exploitation through Advocacy
Word Made Flesh Bolivia was mentioned in a BBC article this week as one of several signatories of a letter demanding that banking institutions block credit card payments to pornographic sites and help create policies that limit exploitation. We are proud to see Word Made Flesh Bolivia as one of the signatories of this petition.…
Mothers are Heroes | A Story from our WMF Community in Rwanda
We have been friends with Consolee for several years. She owns a successful fruit shop on a main road with a lot of traffic where she sells the best bananas around! Whenever we walk by her shop, she’s always sitting outside to greet us with a big smile, with her newborn baby tied to her…
Mothers are Heroes | A Story from our WMF Community in Moldova
Being a mother is not always easy… When I first met Sarah*, I was impressed by her tenacity and courage. She moved to the big city alone with her three children, eager to start a new life away from the pain of her past. She secured an apartment to rent and a stable job as…
Choosing Radical Hope as Obedience
I have recently rejoined our Word Made Flesh community in El Alto, Bolivia after a time of maternity leave and sabbatical. Sabbatical is intended to be a time of stepping back from the daily grind and automatic racing from one task to another in order to reflect, to be calm, to remove oneself and one’s…
To be a Friend of Peace
The other day, in our International Office prayer time, we encountered a poignant statement from our reading in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. The statement echoed lines we earlier read from Psalm 120, “Too long have I had to live among the enemies of peace. I am on the side of peace, but when I…
Humility in the Shark Tank
“How would you like to win $70,000?” We were initially excited when a few weeks ago we were asked to pitch SutiSana for a Bolivian version of the reality show Shark Tank, where we would be competing with 99 other Bolivian businesses for a $70,000 prize. SutiSana, a freedom business that employs vulnerable women, could…
Christ our Hope
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A Time to Heal
By Anna Monteviller, WMF Peru Director We often say something like, “everything is in God’s hands,” but our daily lives and the relative control we have over how we spend our days convince us otherwise. But today, maybe more than ever in our memory, most of humanity’s daily schedule, routines and freedom of movement are…
Faithfulness over Results
by Clint Baldwin, Executive Director We had included this reflection in a monthly newsletter to our staff but wanted to make it available to friends of Word Made Flesh as well. Thank you for partnering with WMF and being a part of God’s work to bring healing, hope, and peace to our neighbors in need around the…
New Charitable Donations Deduction
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