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🌈Rev. Pat Raube
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She/ her. PCUSA Pastor, singer, mother, adoptee, member of the family, sharing photos and opinions about politics, books, LGBTQ+, and, of course, religion.
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Out of the mouths of children and nursing babes your majesty is praised above the heavens.
~Psalm 8:2
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
Advent wreath: four pillar candles, 3 purple and 1 pink, in the middle of a (synthetic but lovely) wreath of green leaves with white berries. One purple candle is lit.
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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WOMB OF LIFE,
our Sovereign,
how exalted is your Name
in all the earth!
~Psalm 8:1
#dailyverses
#Advent2025
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodisLove❤️

Tr.: Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney
Red mum wearing the season’s first light snowfall.
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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For the LORD is good; God’s steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
~Psalm 100:5
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove❤️
Red leaves on a tangle of brown branches with red berries on them.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A prayer for Thanksgiving, with love.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at UPC! 🧡 Rev. Pat offers this prayer of gratitude for today: Gracious God, we thank you for all the goodness you pour out into our lives. Today we thank you for the beauty of the world you have created, the joy of gathering around the table, and our connection with one another. We remember with reverence those whose land we now occupy: the Haudenosaunee, Onondaga, and Tuscarora peoples. We thank you for the gift of their presence here over the millennia, and pray that they might thrive. May the abundance we share this day be matched by the abundance we share with those in need, and the love we share in your holy name. Amen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving and the courts of the LORD with praise. Give thanks to the LORD; bless God’s holy name.
~Psalm 100:4
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🧡
A small branch of bright orange and yellow leaves, atop a bed of yellowy ground cover.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
~Psalm 100:1
#dailyverses
#Thanksgiving
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💛
A branch with the season’s last bright yellow Ginkgo leaves against a bright blue sky.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations; I am exalted in the earth.” The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
~Psalm 46:10-11
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
South-facing view from downtown Binghamton, NY of fluffy clouds over the Vestal hills, with grey, orange-tinged clouds reflecting the sun setting in the west.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
~Psalm 46:7
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove❤️
Closeup of of flowers in fall colors: refs, oranges, golds, purples.
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will help it when the morning dawns.
~Psalm 46:5-6
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
The Susquehanna River at dawn, Endicott, NY. A river winding through dense trees on either side, with dark clouds over a bright horizon, the brightness of the dawning light reflected in the rippling water.
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
~Psalm 46:2-3
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
~Psalm 46:1
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectmigrants
#GodIsLove🩷
Low-lying stratus clouds in shades of orange, just after the sun sets over the hills.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
~Psalm 141:3
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💛
Five bright yellow sunflowers in a reddish-orange pottery vase shaped like a bass, tale flipped up to form the handle. Vase is on an oak table, with yellow sheer curtains in the background, on a sunny day. A piece of art—square, blue, a mosaic of blue tiles, some blue mirror tiles, hangs on a yellow wall to the upper left, blurry, near the window.
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Let my prayer be counted as incense before you and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
~Psalm 141:2
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
A bedside table: a small (sample-sized) lit candle in a metal holder (Dark Hedges by Mythologie); the lid of said candleholder behind and to the right, with the match that lit the candle resting in it; a small blue pottery-made star to the left, with the word “grace” on it (thank you, Consecrate!); behind these, the bottom of a clear glass with a bit of water left in it. Behind these glass, blurry, unrecognizable books in a pile.
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I call upon you, O Lord; come quickly to me; give ear to my voice when I call to you.
~Psalm 141:1
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
Storm-clouds with a break showing bright-blue sky; the corner roof of a grey-shingled house on the right.
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things.
~Psalm 98:1a
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🧡
An old-fashioned street lamp against a sky streaked with pinkish-orange clouds. A large pine tree to the left of the frame and a low hill in the distance, with evergreens and bare deciduous trees in front of the hill.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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God will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
~Psalm 98:9b
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🩷
Fluffy pink and purple clouds in a blue sky, seen through the silhouette of a bare-branched tree on the left, with branches hanging over the top of the frame; four power lines crisscrossing the image; more distant pine trees at the bottom of the frame.
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the world and those who live in it. Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy at the presence of the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth.
~Psalm 98:7-9a
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
The Atlantic Ocean at golden hour, gold-tinged clouds in a blue sky on the horizon, sea foam as waves break.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody.
~Psalm 98:5
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💚
Stained-glass window: a lyre, on a background of cream-colored glass, with an outer “frame” of green glass; closeups the sides of the frame are visible but not the top and bottom.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
~Psalm 98:4
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💛
Full immersion in a maple tree in brilliant yellow, a branch and a bit of blue sky peeking through the center.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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God has remembered her steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
~Psalm 98:3
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove❤️
Red leaves remaining on smooth trunk and branches, bending gracefully to the left of the frame.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
~Psalm 98:1
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🩷
Evening sky above blurry trees, mostly a black blur. Sky in thick layers of greyish blue, pale blue, salmon pink. Taken from a moving car.
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Young men and women alike, old and young together! Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven.
~Psalm 148:12-13
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💛
Looking up at a blue sky through the bright yellow leaves of a maple tree.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Wild animals and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds!
~Psalm 148:10
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🧡
A seagull spring above Cape Cod Bay at Sunrise.
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!
~Psalm 148:9
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🧡
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling God’s command!
~Psalm 148:7-8
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💙
Seagull on the top of a pointed rock from a jetty, high tide in a choppy, grey-green Cape Cod Bay, high tide, so that all of the jetty you can see is this rock.
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM