Posts tagged ‘lenten reflection’
Good Friday Hope
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
– George Iles
Let us reach together today
Have Hope in the Possible
Demonstrating hope in the possible
Jesus did not have a pessimistic view of the world. He did not propose asceticism or withdrawal, or demand an “ethic of absolutes” impossible to practice in real life. Rather, he described behavior governed by the love of God and demonstrated its possibility in the world.
– Andre Trocme, Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution
Hope Requires Trust in Providence
The hummingbird, like the swallow, trusts in providence.
Providence is the faith that nothing can prevent us from fulfilling the ultimate meaning of our existence. Providence does not mean a divine planning by which everything is predetermined, as is an efficient machine. Rather, Providence means that there is a creative and saving possibility implied in every situation, which cannot be destroyed by any event.
– Paul Tillich
The Miracle of Love
The enchantment of the hummingbird
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
– C.S. Lewis
Seeing with Beginners Sight
What kind of seeing should we do during this Lenten season? In Buddhism they talk about Beginner’s Mind. Perhaps we should work at Beginners Sight.
Whether seeing clouds or the vineyard – or both – it is a world of glory
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
– Betty Smith (There are certainly many Betty Smiths in the world – I’ll leave it up to the readers to discover which one she is.)
Proust on Truly Seeing
I have always appreciated this quote by Marcel Proust:
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
What surprises can I see in the landscapes before me?
Meister Eckhart on Sight
On this 4th Sunday of Lent, we read how Jesus heals the man who had been born blind. So this week we will reflect on sight.
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart
