“Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.” — St. Clare of Assisi
Verse of the day
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
– Proverbs 24:27
Voice of the day
If they are to be the people of God, Christians have to first become a people — that is, a network of living communities working out their understandings, planning their courses of action, and organizing themselves for action.
– Leonardo Boff & Clodovis Boff, translated by Paul Burns, Introducing Liberation Theology (1987)
Prayer of the day
Creator God, make us into your people; help us make plans and work together to build the Beloved Community.
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
I am thankful for parishioners who reach out
I am thankful for opportunities to Be Still
I am thankful for an evening spent with Howard Thurman and Thomas Merton
From a sermon of Howard Thurman: I will not let you keep me from loving you. I will not give you that power.
And from Thomas Merton’s Day of a Stranger: What I wear is pants, what I do is live, how I pray is breathe.
Help me to love and to breathe dear Lord
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 People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.” – Luke 18:15-16 |
| Voice of the day The great events of this world are not battles and elections and earthquakes and thunderbolts. The great events are babies, for each child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged with humanity, but is still expecting goodwill to become incarnate in each human life. – Marian Wright Edelman, “Standing Up for Children” (2003) |
| Prayer of the day God, as we send our children back to school, help us to love and respect and act now to protect them all. – Prayer adapted from Marian Wright Edelman |
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
It has been a long day, Lord
Filled with meetings and worship preparations
Today I was with a family as they began their walk through the Valley of the Shadows
It has been a while yet I knew it would come
Exhausted and ready for sleep I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre…
“To encourage joy creates joy. To promote peace brings peace. The act of being peaceful and spreading peace actually brings it about. It puts it out there into the earth, even if you can’t see it; a seed has been sown, and who knows when, where, or how that seed will take root and grow.”—Robert Muller
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”—Plato
I need a love that is troubled by injustice. — Austin Channing Brown
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
It has been a day of cleaning and relaxing
It has been a day with good news at rehab for Dad as he continues to improve
It has also been a day for missing my beloved
Tonight dinner and relaxing with very dear friends on their way home
Now Pixie and I are settled in bed and ready for sleep
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…
“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
