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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?
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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”
The Renewable Resource of Hope
As we face the grand ecological crisis of our time, our most important renewable resource is hope. We simply must put it on with our shoes each morning.
-Barbara Kingsolver
We Learn of God through Creation
If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created.
– Meister Eckhart
With What Am I Willing to Struggle in 2016?
When we ask ourselves what kind of world we want to leave behind, we think in the first place of its general direction, its meaning and its values. Unless we struggle with these deeper issues, I do not believe that our concern for ecology will produce significant results.
– Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 160
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