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The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:31:39 -0500

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.

~Gertrude S. Wister

In the fury of the moment I can see the master’s hand In...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:13:15 -0500

In the fury of the moment I can see the master’s hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

~Bob Dylan, Every Grain of Sand

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:28:01 -0500

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

~Mother Theresa

Reborn You want to be reborn, you want that a new and better...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:22:25 -0500

Reborn

You want to be reborn, you want that a new and better you should emerge from the frozen hulk winter has made you, you want to be free again? Then you have to let go of the old you. You must be willing to walk into the midst of the sea on dry ground and risk it all.

~Lawrence Kushner

A Late Walk When I go up through the mowing field, The headless...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:54:41 -0400

A Late Walk

When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.

And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words

A tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
Comes softly rattling down.

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.

~Robert Frost

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. ~Stephen...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:52:54 -0400

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

~Stephen Levine

Closing Doors Every time you close another door—be it the...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:27:45 -0400

Closing Doors

Every time you close another door—be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection—you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

This is a movement toward full incarnation. It leads you to become what you already are—a child of God; it lets you embody more and more the truth of your being; it makes you claim the God within you.

~Henri J. M. Nouwen

Getting Real

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:09:05 -0400

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

Source: The Velveteen Rabbit

And I smile to think God’s greatness flows around our...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:16 -0400

And I smile to think God’s greatness flows around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, His rest.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Helen...

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:02:58 -0400

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

~ Helen Keller

i never had any trouble seeing God as a loving, compassionate...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:43:54 -0400

i never had any trouble seeing God as a loving, compassionate and patient heavenly Father because of the way my earthly father consistently modeled these attributes in my life.

i love you daddy….

Apprehend God in all things,for God is in all things. Every...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:53:31 -0400

Apprehend God in all things,
for God is in all things.

Every single creature is full of God
and is a book about God.

Every creature is a word of God.

If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature—
even a caterpillar—
I would never have to prepare a sermon.
So full of God is every creature.

~Meister Eckhart

Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:32:56 -0400

Love is the poetry of the senses.

~Honoré de Balzac

Make music with your life a jaggedsilver tunecuts every...

Fri, 20 May 2011 09:10:09 -0400

Make music with your life

a
jagged
silver tune
cuts every deepday madness
Into jewels that you wear

Carry 16 bars of old blues
with you
everywhere you go
walk thru azure sadness
howlin
Like a guitar player

Source: Teaching With Fire, Bob O’Meally

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we...

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:01:59 -0400

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. ~ 1 Pet 2:24

Lenten Sacrifice Relinquish the self.Surrender disdain.With...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:53:09 -0400

Lenten Sacrifice

Relinquish the self.
Surrender disdain.
With every breath
release the Light
that shines
through brokenness.

Nancy Compton Williams

If we want to have all our bases covered before we act, nothing...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:59:00 -0400

If we want to have all our bases covered before we act, nothing exciting will happen. But if we dare to take a few crazy risks because God asks us to do so, many doors, which we didn’t even know existed, will be opened for us.

~Henri J. M. Nouwen

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. ~Charles F....

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:09:53 -0400

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

~Charles F. Kettering

When lilacs last in the door-year bloom’d, And the...

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:22:04 -0400

When lilacs last in the door-year bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

~Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:22:39 -0400

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

~Mother Teresa