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All Creation Teaches Us
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these may have a valuable lesson to teach us. – Black Elk in All Our Relatives by Paul Goble
Life from Broken Branches and Fallen Leaves
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves and grows out of its own decay, so [people] and nations are bettered and improved by trial and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. – F.W. Robinson
Are We Going Out or Going In?
It was not like taking the veil, no solemn abjuration of the world, I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay till sundown for going out I found that I was really going in. – John Muir
Show Me Your Ways, O Lord.
Today’s Lenten poem/prayer/psalm from Education for Justice is from the Psalms: Psalm 25:6-10. Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is… Continue Reading “Show Me Your Ways, O Lord.”
Think Not How Far
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Harold Macdonald. Think Not How Far Think not how far we have to go, how far we’ve come; it saps the strength, melts the will. It’s better not to know the breadth and height and… Continue Reading “Think Not How Far”
To Live in the Mercy of God
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Denise Levertov. To Live in the Mercy of God To lie back under the tallest oldest trees. How far the stems rise, rise before ribs of shelter open! To live in the mercy of God.… Continue Reading “To Live in the Mercy of God”
The Trees of the Forest Rejoice!
Today’s Advent Reading is the Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 96. The Lord our God comes with power. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all you lands. Sing to the Lord; bless God’s name; announce God’s salvation, day after… Continue Reading “The Trees of the Forest Rejoice!”
A Thought on the Necessity of Beauty from John Muir
Jesus told us that we cannot live on bread alone. John Muir may not have been thinking about Jesus’ words when he wrote the following, but he certainly had the wisdom of the Spirit of Creation when he wrote: Everyone needs beauty as well… Continue Reading “A Thought on the Necessity of Beauty from John Muir”
Trusting that our God Walks with Us
Friday’s reading is from the 14th chapter of the Prophet Hosea. Let the one who is wise understand these things; let the one who is prudent know them. Straight are the paths of the LORD, in them the just walk, but sinners stumble in… Continue Reading “Trusting that our God Walks with Us”
Like a Tree Planted by a River
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 1 Blessed the one who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on God’s law day… Continue Reading “Like a Tree Planted by a River”
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