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Taste and See
Today is the 4th Sunday of Lent. What better words can we keep with us this week than those from our Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 34:
Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
Spirit is with Us
Today is the Third Sunday of Lent
I love the story of the woman at the well in the Gospel of John – there is so much to reflect on – so many nuggets of wisdom. These words of Jesus offer such promise, “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship God in Spirit and truth; and indeed God seeks people to worship in this way. God is Spirit, and those who worship must worship in Spirit and truth.”
Even during Lent – even in our darker days – the Spirit is with us.
A Lenten Mantra
Today is the Second Sunday of Lent.
In today’s Psalm, we respond with the words, “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” What better words to repeat?! What better mantra can we find than to remind ourselves of this truth?
Listen
Today is the First Sunday of Lent
In today’s reading from Romans 10:8-13, Paul writes “The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.”
We so often look and listen around us for God’s voice – for direction – for wisdom. Could it be that what we need is a little less noise – a little less searching – and a lot more quiet listening to the Spirit who dwells within. How much more intimate can God be than in our mouth and in our hearts?
Listen.
Ash Wednesday Thoughts
Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.– Florida Scott-Maxwell – The Measure of My Days
Let Us Live the Questions
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.– Thomas Merton
Roll Me to a Sky-Wide View
If my mind gets trapped inside
Just roll me to my sky-wide view
Where I will feast on cumulous and light
And tell you that art with just my eyes.
– Jane Brainin, With irrepressible spirit, anticipating the toll of ALS
Sparks of God’s Brilliance
All living beings are, so to speak, sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance. These sparks mere from God like rays of the sun.
– Hildegard of Bingen
The Wisdom of Abraham Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
What Might I Become?
May I become an island for those seeking dry land
A lamp for those needing light,
A place of rest for those who desire one,
And a servant for those needing service.– Shantideva, “May I Become an Island”
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