“I think what I need to learn is an almost infinite tolerance and compassion… I am beginning to think that in our time we will correct almost nothing, and get almost nowhere: but if we can just prepare a compassionate and receptive soil for the future, we will have done a great work. I feel at least that this is the turn my own life ought to take.” — Thomas Merton (The Hidden Ground of Love, p.20)
A special thank you to Paul Pynkoski for sharing this quote and photo ❣️
“When the economy is geared to the arming of the heavens rather than the development of the earth, neighbors and nations must learn to cry out their dissatisfaction together.”—Joan Chittister, OSB
Verse of the day
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
– Hebrew 13:2
Voice of the day
We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.
– Bayard Rustin
Prayer of the day
Help us to become a community of angelic troublemakers, committed to hospitality for all.
“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”—Martin Luther King
Verse of the day
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
– 1 John 4:8
Voice of the day
Love is not consolation, it is light.
– Simone Weil, translated by Arthur Wills, Gravity and Grace (1947)
Prayer of the day
Help us to embody your love and your light.
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
What a wonderful day, Lord
Welcoming back my assistant pastor from a much needed time of rest and refreshment
Next a time of blessing at the VA clinic drawing blood
Spending time with a dear colleague and friend with our spouses
You brought us home safely through horrific rain, lightning, and wind
What a lovely evening with my sweetheart and our sweet kitten
Lord, so many gifts and so many blessings
Thank you
Now as my eyelids grow heavy
I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre…
Verse of the day
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
– Deuteronomy 19:14
Voice of the day
Empires create their own theologies to justify their occupation.
– Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire (2014)
Prayer of the day
Let us never use our faith as a weapon to harm others.
“We see that the earth is not only the environment. The earth is us. And taking care of the earth, we take care of ourselves. And many people get sick today because they get alienated from Mother Earth. . . . The practice of mindfulness helps us to go back to our body and touch Mother Earth inside of our body and touch the earth outside of our body. That practice can help heal people. So the healing of the people should go together with the healing of the earth.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
Verse of the day
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Voice of the day
Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes.
– Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace(1994)
Prayer of the day
Creator, thank you for the persistence of love. May we embody love’s unending spirit.
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
It has been a good Lord’s day
Wonderful worship and fellowship this morning
Naps and reading this afternoon
Time spent with my sweetheart
Being entertained by our sweet Stella
Plus another beautiful sunset
So many reminders of God’s grace and love
Now as my eyelids grow heavy
I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre…
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