Today’s Reflection COMMUNITY IS NOT loneliness grabbing onto loneliness: “I’m so lonely; you’re so lonely. Please stay awhile!” Grabbing too easily becomes grasping, and grasping may quickly turn into suffocating closeness. No, community is solitude greeting solitude: “I am the beloved; you are the beloved. Together we can build a home.” Sometimes we are clo […]
Today’s Reflection WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE to us is possible with God. The parameters of our thinking or the limitations of our imagination do not confine God. Who are we to place limits on what God can do? I created the heavens and the earth, God says. I created light and darkness, God says. I breathed […]
Today’s Reflection O GOD whose mercy is upon generation after generation, fill my spirit with the joy of your Spirit! Grant me the gift of joyous expectation, seeing your coming in a million ways and responding with blessing, with leaping, and with joy. Amen. – Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki - Disciplines 2000 From page 371 of […]
Today’s Reflection ONE OF THE GREATEST OBSTACLES facing us on the road to spiritual formation is our lack of appreciation for our infinite worth in the eyes of God. No matter what faults and failings may hamper us on our way home to our Father’s house, God loves and forgives and welcomes us. - Entering […]
Today’s Reflection JESUS, YOU SAID that the poorwould be with us always—and they are here.On street corners in blistering heat and in tent cities.They are here—women and children,young folks and old,some displaced suddenly,others who slid slowly into the abyssthat hides them from us. Here they are, Jesus, hungry and thirsty,in need of a doctor and […]