Verse of the day
For in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
– Colossians 1:16-17
Voice of the day
Perhaps if we returned to loving the land, waters, and all beings that live and breathe around us, we might learn how to love our human relatives again.
– Kaitlin Curtice, “The Sacredness of the Earth as She Is”
Prayer of the day
Creator, teach us to love all creation and our human family, united in you who hold all things together.
Verse of the day
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
– 1 Timothy 6:9-10
Voice of the day
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
– Aung San Suu Kyi, “Freedom from Fear” (1991)
Prayer of the day
God, guard our hearts from the love of wealth and the fear of losing power, that we may remain faithful and free from the ruin that selfish desires bring.
The Kingdom of God is, then, not the Kingdom of those who merely preach a doctrine or follow certain religious practices: it is the Kingdom of those who love. To build the Kingdom of God is to build a society that is based entirely on freedom and love. It is to build a society which is founded on respect for the individual person, since only persons are capable of love. — Disputed Questions, p. 142, Kindle version
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”—Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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Verse of the day
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
– John 8:31-32
Voice of the day
Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.
– James Cone
Prayer of the day
Let your living truth take root in us, that by continuing in your word we may be set free and become agents of liberation in a world longing for justice and grace.
“If violence is met by violence, the world will fall into a spiral of violence”—Hélder Câmara
“We have the capacity to feed ourselves several times over, but we are daily haunted by the spectacle of the gaunt dregs of humanity shuffling along in endless queues, with bowls to collect what the charity of the world has provided, too little too late. When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1984
The union that binds the members of Christ together is not the union of proud confidence in the power of an organization. The Church is united by the humility as well as by the charity of her members. Hers is the union that comes from the consciousness of individual fallibility and poverty, from the humility which recognizes its own limitations and accepts them, the meekness that cannot take upon itself to condemn, but can only forgive because it is conscious that it has itself been forgiven by Christ. The union of Christians is a union of friendship and mercy, a bearing of one anothers’ burdens in the sharing of divine forgiveness. — Disputed Questions, pp. 139-140 Kindle version
Verse of the day
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
– Isaiah 43:19
Voice of the day
The most damaging phrase in the language is, “It’s always been done that way.”
– Grace Hopper
Prayer of the day
God, help us to notice your forward-moving spirit and give us the courage to join in your new and transformative work.
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