Patience – Quote of the Week

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"Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something.Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else.Let’s be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand."- Henri Nouwen … [Read more...]

Falling in Love with the Giver – Quote of the Week

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We ask for a piece of sand
 and he gives us a beach.We ask for a drop of water 
and he gives us an ocean.We ask for time 
and he gives us life eternal.And it is so easy for us
 to fall in love with the gift
 and forget the giver.Source: Prayer Is a Hunger quoted in In the Stillness Is the Dancing by Mark Link  … [Read more...]

THE MAN IN THE ARENA – Quote of the Week

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.Teddy Roosevelt … [Read more...]

Trees – God’s Temples – John Muir Quote

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. Public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”― John Muir … [Read more...]

Prayer by Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt (Photo credit: onecle)Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find, forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life.  Draw us from base content and set our eyes on far off goals.  Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.  Deliver us from the fretfulness and self-pitying; make us sure of the good we cannot see and of the hidden good in the world.  Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us and our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us because we do not try to understand them.  Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of the world made new.Eleanor Roosevelt      … [Read more...]

Praying our Uncertainties – a Holy Saturday Quote

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Take time to pray your uncertainties, lifting them up to God for comfort and guidance, knowing God is with us in the wilderness.Life is often a time of Holy Saturdays with no resurrection in sight. Like the "valley of the shadow" of Psalm 23, we can train our senses and heart and mind to experience God's Spirit in the darkest valleys. We can gain sympathy for those persons who are struggling as we face our own Holy Saturday struggles. While our resurrections are uncertain—our successes still in suspense—we can listen for God's voice of companionship, care, and counsel as we live the uncertainty of Holy Saturday.Bruce Epperly … [Read more...]