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Sunday, October 18, 2026
Priesthood & Blessing
● LOOM DAY · ANCHOR
Movement GIVE · Function RETURN
The Day in View
World Mission Day
Global Pattern: Blessing • Mediation • Mission • Communion
The 100th World Mission Day falls on October 18, 2026, with the theme “One in Christ, united in mission.” The Vatican's message connects communion with mission and describes missionary fruitfulness as flowing from life in Christ and from gifts received and shared.
The Torah reading on the preceding Sabbath is Lech-Lecha, whose promise includes becoming a blessing to others.
Today the thread deepens.
Stewardship is not merely about caring for what has been placed in our hands. Sometimes what has been entrusted to us is intended to move through us.
The Question the World Is Asking
What blessing has been entrusted to me that was never meant to end with me?
When Miriam received the university letter, she read it three times.
A scholarship. Four years. Engineering. For a girl who had grown up in Khwisero, a small town near Kakamega, the letter seemed to open an enormous door.
Her father held the paper with both hands.
“God has given you a road,” he said.
Miriam smiled.
She left. University changed her. She discovered ideas she had never encountered. She met people from places she had known only from maps.
She graduated and found work in Nairobi. Years passed. Her life became full.
One December, she returned home and met an eighteen-year-old girl named Naliaka. Naliaka had done well in school but was convinced engineering was “for other people.” Miriam asked why.
“People like us don't get those opportunities.”
Miriam had heard those very words. Only this time they were coming from her own lips. She immediately identified the fear she herself had once carried.
She offered to help. First with mathematics. Then with applications. Then with university forms. Then with introductions.
Naliaka eventually received a place at university.
One evening, Miriam's father asked:
“Why do you spend so much time helping this girl?”
Miriam thought about it.
She remembered the scholarship letter. The people who had recommended her. The teachers who had stayed late. The uncle who had found money for examination fees. The family that had believed she could go.
She looked at her father.
“Because someone did it for me.”
Her father nodded. Then he said something she had not expected.
“That is how blessing works.”
Miriam stared at her father, silently digesting those words. Later that night, she thought about the sentence again.
That is how blessing works.
She had spent years thinking blessing meant receiving something good.
A good education. A good job. A good house. A good income. A good opportunity.
Maybe blessing was not finally measured by what had arrived into her hands.
“Could it be measured by what could now travel through them?” she asked herself
Kingdom Interpretation
Genesis 12 changes our understanding of receiving. Abraham is blessed. But the promise does not end there. He is blessed so that blessing can reach families beyond himself.
The gift carries a destination. That is why priesthood matters.
A priest stands between realities.
Receives. Carries. Offers. Mediates.
The biblical priest is not simply the person who possesses something sacred. The priest is entrusted with something sacred for the sake of others. That gives stewardship a profoundly different shape.
Could it be that your education is not merely something you earned? Or your experience is not merely accumulated capital? Perhaps your influence is not merely a personal asset? Or that your resources are not merely evidence of your success.
They may be things through which blessing is meant to travel. This does not mean every gift must be surrendered. It does mean every gift must eventually answer a deeper question:
Who is this for?
Anchor
This is where October's movement becomes more than management.
RECEIVE.
I did not create everything in my hands.
TEND.
I am responsible for what I have received.
GIVE.
What has been entrusted to me may now become provision for another.
The mature steward therefore becomes something like a conduit. Not an owner clutching a reservoir. A channel. What comes through the channel remains God's gift.
But the channel matters.
A blocked channel cannot bless downstream.
SOUL STARe
We often pray for God to bless us.
There is nothing wrong with that. But what happens after the blessing arrives?
Does it stop at us? Does it become private property in our imagination? Do we receive education and use it only to enlarge our own opportunity? Do we receive influence and use it only to enlarge our own name? Do we receive money and use it only to secure our own future? Do we receive healing and forget those still wounded? Do we receive wisdom and become impressive rather than useful?
Perhaps the revealing question is not:
Have I been blessed?
It is:
Has what has been given to me become a blessing?
Genesis 12:2
“I will bless you… and you will be a blessing.”
1 Peter 4:10
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others.”
Received. Then given.
Not because the gift was insufficient. Because its purpose was always larger than the person who received it.
The Demand
Identify one blessing in your life that has quietly become private property in your imagination.
It might be:
your education, your income, your professional skill, your home, your network, your influence, your testimony, your experience, your time, or something else.
Then ask:
Who might God intend to bless through this?
Take one concrete step today.
Not a grand gesture. A real one.
✙ Prayer for the Day ✙
Master Weaver, thank You for every gift that has reached me through hands I did not always see. Forgive me for the moments when blessing became possession. Teach me the freedom of being a conduit.
Let what enters my hands find its way toward others. Let my education become service. My resources become provision. My influence become shelter. My wounds become compassion. My wisdom become guidance. And my life become a place through which Your goodness travels. Amen.
Hidden Thread · Genesis → Revelation
Abraham receives a promise for the nations. Israel receives covenant for the sake of witness. Priests receive holy responsibility. Prophets receive a word they must carry. Christ gives Himself. The Spirit gives gifts for the body. And the final vision is not one person blessed in isolation but ends with nations healed. The blessing keeps moving.
Gift becomes vocation.
Vocation becomes service.
Service becomes blessing
The Precious Gift traces the movement from shame toward restored identity and vocation. October asks what happens when a restored life stops treating blessing as private property and becomes available to the good of others.
The Thread Forward
The blessing does not end when it leaves our hands.
It enters the public world. Our words. Our choices. Our images. Our leadership. Our work. Our communication.
What passes through us becomes something in the world.
On October 24, the thread becomes public.
Vocation becomes representation.
Reflection from The Precious Gift
BEGIN THE JOURNEY →
This Week
Movement Three — Give
What must move through me? Mediation, blessing, provision, influence
- ✦ The Table That Remembers
- ✦ When the Gift Does Not Reach the Table
- ✦ Priesthood & Blessing
- ✦ Let It Travel
- ✦ The Courage We Inherit
- ✦ Not Meant to End With Me
- ✦ The Gift Has a Direction
- ✦ What the Future Cannot Speak For
From the Teacher
"I don't write these reflections from a place of having arrived. I write them from the road — still walking, still shedding."
Joe Asiba is the author of The Precious Gift, founder of The Mission House, and host of the podcast "Do you hear the call?"
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Monday
October 19, 2026
Let It Travel
Sunday
October 18, 2026
Priesthood & Blessing
Saturday
October 17, 2026
When the Gift Does Not Reach the Table
Friday
October 16, 2026
The Table That Remembers
Thursday
October 15, 2026
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October 14, 2026
The Things We Stop Seeing
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October 13, 2026
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October 12, 2026
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October 11, 2026
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October 10, 2026
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October 9, 2026
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October 8, 2026
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Wednesday
October 7, 2026
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October 6, 2026
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October 5, 2026
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October 4, 2026
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October 3, 2026
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October 2, 2026
Receiving Without Fear
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October 1, 2026
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September 30, 2026
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September 29, 2026
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September 25, 2026
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September 24, 2026
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September 18, 2026
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September 17, 2026
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September 16, 2026
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September 15, 2026
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September 12, 2026
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September 11, 2026
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September 10, 2026
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September 8, 2026
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September 5, 2026
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September 4, 2026
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September 3, 2026
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September 2, 2026
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September 1, 2026
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August 31, 2026
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August 30, 2026
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August 29, 2026
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August 26, 2026
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August 25, 2026
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August 24, 2026
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August 23, 2026
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August 22, 2026
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August 21, 2026
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August 20, 2026
The Slow Work of Peace
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August 19, 2026
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August 18, 2026
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August 17, 2026
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August 16, 2026
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August 15, 2026
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August 14, 2026
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August 13, 2026
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August 12, 2026
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August 11, 2026
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August 10, 2026
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August 9, 2026
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August 8, 2026
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August 7, 2026
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August 6, 2026
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August 5, 2026
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August 4, 2026
The Wisdom of Small Beginnings
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August 3, 2026
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August 2, 2026
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August 1, 2026
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July 31, 2026
The Master Weaver's Harvest
Thursday
July 30, 2026
The Orchard You Leave Behind
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July 29, 2026
The Empty Chair
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July 28, 2026
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July 27, 2026
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July 26, 2026
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July 25, 2026
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July 24, 2026
The Quiet Builders
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July 23, 2026
The Bridge Between Strangers
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July 22, 2026
The Garden Nobody Noticed
Tuesday
July 21, 2026
The Move You Cannot Take Back
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July 20, 2026
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July 19, 2026
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July 18, 2026
The Sixty-Seven Minutes
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July 17, 2026
When Justice Is Still Remembered
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July 16, 2026
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June 1, 2026
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May 31, 2026
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May 30, 2026
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May 29, 2026
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Thursday
May 28, 2026
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May 27, 2026
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May 26, 2026
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May 25, 2026
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May 24, 2026
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May 23, 2026
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May 22, 2026
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May 21, 2026
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May 20, 2026
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May 19, 2026
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May 17, 2026
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May 16, 2026
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May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
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May 12, 2026
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May 11, 2026
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May 10, 2026
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May 9, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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May 7, 2026
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May 6, 2026
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May 5, 2026
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May 4, 2026
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May 3, 2026
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May 2, 2026
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May 1, 2026
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April 30, 2026
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April 28, 2026
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April 27, 2026
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April 26, 2026
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April 25, 2026
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April 24, 2026
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April 23, 2026
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April 22, 2026
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April 21, 2026
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April 20, 2026
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April 19, 2026
The Two Builders
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April 18, 2026
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April 17, 2026
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April 16, 2026
The Question He Asked Three Times
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April 15, 2026
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April 14, 2026
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April 13, 2026
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April 12, 2026
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Christ is Risen — Again
Saturday
April 11, 2026
Post-Easter reflection
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Friday
April 10, 2026
Post-Easter reflection
The Peace That Passes Through Locked Doors
Thursday
April 9, 2026
Yom HaShoah approaches (Holocaust Remembrance)
The Name Only He Uses
Wednesday
April 8, 2026
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The Road to Emmaus
Tuesday
April 7, 2026
World Health Day (WHO) · Easter Week continues
The Breakfast on the Beach
Monday
April 6, 2026
Easter Monday
The Wounds He Kept
Sunday
April 5, 2026
Easter Sunday — the resurrection of Jesus Christ
He Is Not Here
Saturday
April 4, 2026
Holy Saturday — the day between crucifixion and resurrection
Holy Saturday
Friday
April 3, 2026
Good Friday — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
The Silence of Good Friday
Thursday
April 2, 2026
Maundy Thursday — the Last Supper and foot-washing
The Last Supper
Wednesday
April 1, 2026
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The Night He Prayed Alone
Tuesday
March 31, 2026
Holy Tuesday
The Question That Silenced Everyone
Monday
March 30, 2026
Holy Monday
The Temple He Cleared
Sunday
March 29, 2026
Palm Sunday — the triumphal entry into Jerusalem
The King Who Rode a Donkey
Saturday
March 28, 2026
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The Silence Before the Entrance
Friday
March 27, 2026
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The Stage We Were Made For
Thursday
March 26, 2026
Purple Day — International Epilepsy Awareness Day
The Storm That Never Announces Itself
Wednesday
March 25, 2026
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The Yes That Cost Everything
Tuesday
March 24, 2026
Anniversary of the assassination of Óscar Romero (1980)
The Bishop Who Would Not Be Silent
Monday
March 23, 2026
World Meteorological Day
Signs in the Sky
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March 22, 2026
World Water Day (UN) · Fourth Sunday of Lent
The Thirst Beneath the Thirst
Saturday
March 21, 2026
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March 20, 2026
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Thursday
March 19, 2026
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The Father Who Waited
Wednesday
March 18, 2026
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Nothing Is Wasted
Tuesday
March 17, 2026
St Patrick's Day · Lent continues
The Saint Who Stayed
Monday
March 16, 2026
Holi (Hindu) — the Festival of Colours
Colour as Defiance
Sunday
March 15, 2026
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Friday
March 13, 2026
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The Name You're Becoming
Wednesday
March 11, 2026
Ramadan Week 3 continues
The Name You Hide Behind
Sunday
March 8, 2026
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The Name They Gave You
Friday
March 6, 2026
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The Table You Need to Build
Wednesday
March 4, 2026
Holi (Hindu Festival of Colors) • Ramadan continues
The Table That Costs Something
Sunday
March 1, 2026
First Sunday of March • Ramadan Week 2
The Table You're Avoiding
Friday
February 27, 2026
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The Fear You Inherited
Wednesday
February 25, 2026
Ramadan continues (Week 1)
The Script You Didn't Write
Sunday
February 22, 2026
Second Sunday of Lent • Ramadan continues
The Weight of Borrowed Expectations
Friday
February 20, 2026
World Day of Social Justice (UN)
The Door You're Holding Shut
Wednesday
February 18, 2026
Ash Wednesday (Christian) • First Day of Ramadan (Islamic)
The Door Marked "Later"
Sunday
February 15, 2026
Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) • Parinirvana Day (Buddhist)
The Door You Keep Walking Past
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