Weavings journal is a quarterly publication that promotes a pattern of faithful living marked by prayer, community, and engagement. Such living, to which laity and clergy alike are called, embraces all those expressions of discipline and discipleship that mark the Christian's response to God's work of weaving together the torn fabric of life.  http://www.upperroom.org/weavings/writers_guidelines.asp

Do Not Be Anxious About Tomorrow

Vol. XXV, No. 4 (Fall)

All Proposals Due: 8/03/09
All Assignments made: 10/01/09
Copy due: 1/20/10

"From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work" (Ps. 104:13). Trust in God's attentiveness to creaturely needs leads Jesus to assure us that God knows even the number of hairs on our head (Matt. 10:30). Yet we desire something more, some tangible assurance as a hedge against the fearfully precarious circumstances of human life. This desire may manifest itself as greed. Major investment houses in the United States are now seriously compromised as a result of lending practices driven by pursuit of massive profits. Our need for assurance may become visible in how anxiety about the future constricts our freedom to embrace new relationships, choose new work, move to new parts of the country or world. In an interview about his remarkable documentary film on the Carthusian monks of La Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble , France , Philip Groening observes: "We think that we are able to fashion our lives ourselves, or even that we should be fashioning our lives ourselves and that this is the only way to attain happiness. This is why so many people today are afraid of life. The monastery is a place that is free of fear. One has the age-old trust that God will provide." We invite submissions that examine the impact of anxiety on our lives and the spiritual disciplines that help us live creatively with it.