Verse of the day
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
– John 14:27
Voice of the day
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.- Brené Brown
Prayer of the day
May we be open to the truth, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Help us to listen to those who are speaking truth into the world.
God is most real when we stop viewing her as an Object like a book or a mug, and instead view him as as a River, a Flow, a Process. . . which is unfolding in the here & now.
When God is a process, we can *participate* in the life of God unfolding *as our own lives.*
God is the Life of our lives.
💫 We join the divine Dance.
💫 We swim in the River of God.
💫 We enter the living Flow as an active participant of It.
God ain’t out there as a Guy-in-the-Sky.
God is the dynamism your very life.
Are you with me?
“Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I’m going to be waking up until the moment I die.”—Helen Prejean, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
Verse of the day
Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.
– Proverbs 22:6
Voice of the day
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
– Nancy Astor
Prayer of the day
Thank you for all the teachers in our lives. May we seek safety, security, and respect for teachers across the world.
Verse of the day
I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
– Ephesians 3:18-19
– Julian of Norwich
Voice of the day
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
Prayer of the day
Reveal to us your vision for the world in our daily prayers. Center us in your fullness.
Verse of the day
Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
– James 5:4
Voice of the day
By fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute–the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor in other words, we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world.
– Dorothy Day
Prayer of the day
God of justice, open the ears of the wealthy and powerful. May we cry out unceasingly for the rights of all workers.
Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me. And what you want to give me is love—unconditional, everlasting love.
Amen.
Verse of the day
Contribute to the needs of the saints; pursue hospitality to strangers.
– Romans 12:13
Voice of the day
Should not our communion services be a time to connect our sharing in Jesus’ body and blood with contemplating how we might share food, justice, and community with people in need of them?
– Reta Halteman Finger, “Early Church Potlucks Were Surprisingly Subversive”
Prayer of the day
As we partake in your body and blood, may we contribute to one another’s needs and pursue hospitality toward all our neighbors.
“We are living in a down-is-up, war-is-peace world.”—Louis Menand
“Wisdom means we are given responsibility for making choices and often have to act without certainty of the outcome. This is an inherent aspect of life’s messiness.”
Christine Valters Paintner, PhD from Illuminating the Way: Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics
Can you open yourself to the wisdom hidden in the messy details of your daily life?
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