“The heart of healing work is transformation—transforming pain, wounds, self-imposed limitations, grief and loss, and discovering within them a gift or grace.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE, Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal
What gifts have you discovered in your healing work?
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“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”—Joaquin Phoenix
“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.”—Gandhi, Basic Education
“War is a judgment that overtakes societies when they have been living upon ideas that conflict too violently with the laws governing the universe. . . . Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations.” — Dorothy Sayers
Verse of the day
Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.
– Matthew 4:23
Voice of the day
Our material needs are important to God, and having everyone’s needs met is God’s vision for society. We are called to act so God’s vision of universal thriving is realized.
– Edith Rasell, “Does Abundant Life Include a Living Wage?”
Prayer of the day
Thank you for the work you are still doing today to meet our needs, Lord. May we not miss your call to action as we bring about your vision of universal thriving.
“Anyone who thinks war is the highest form of struggle, or the means of resolving conflicts, still has a very limited vision of humanity.” — Danilo Dolci, “the Gandhi of Sicily”
“They say that if you do not forgive, you become the oppressor. . . . Who can stand unfazed in the face of grace? Only the expertly numb. The rest, the majority of the world shakes to its core every time forgiveness is administered.”— Lyla June Johnston
“Imagine as you move through the year that with each moment of turning you are stepping across a new threshold asking what this season reveals to you now.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE, Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life
Can you simply yield to the invitation of each moment, each hour, each season, without striving or grasping at something other than what is being offered?
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“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”—Ursula K Le Guin
“GK Chesterton said, ‘It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.’ I believe this statement can be applied to the lack of reconciliation within the church today. The problem is that there is a gaping hole in our gospel. We have preached a gospel that leaves us believing that we can be reconciled to God but not reconciled to our Christian brothers and sisters who don’t look like us—brothers and sisters with whom we are, in fact, one blood.”—John M Perkins
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