If we picture all the obstructions between us and God as a wilderness, Lent presents us with time to clear and cultivate a part of that wilderness, to create an open space in it. In this newly opened space, we may live more freely and commune more closely with the divine. We can transform this wilderness and make it our home, our garden, a place that invites God in and asks God to stay.-Sarah Parsons A Clearing Season: Reflections for Lent … [Read more...]
An Irish Blessing – Quote of the Week
Image via WikipediaMay the road rise to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face.And rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet again,May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.Irish Blessing … [Read more...]
Trust the Slow Work of God – Quote by Teilhard de Chardin
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually—let them grow; let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ … [Read more...]
Lent quote by Joan Chittister
Lent is not a ritual. It is time given to think seriously about who Jesus is for us, to renew our faith from the inside out. It is the moment when, as the baptismal waters flow on every Easter Vigil altar, we return to the baptismal font of the heart to say yes once more to the call of Jesus to the disciples, “Come and see” ( John 1:39). It is the act of beginning our spiritual life all over again refreshed and reoriented.Joan Chittister … [Read more...]
The Important Time of Day – Quote of the Week
prayer.. (Photo credit: aronki)Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.Etty Hillesum … [Read more...]
Prayer – Quote of the Week by Theophan the Recluse
“To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all-seeing, within you.” Theophan the Recluse, a 19thcentury Russian mystic. … [Read more...]
Weather and Attitude – Quote of the Week
Image via Wikipedia“You bring your own weather to the picnic.”Harlan Coben, writer … [Read more...]
A Swedish Blessing – Quote of the Week
Fear less, hope more;Eat less, chew more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more; hate less, love more;and all good things are yours.Swedish Proverb … [Read more...]