
“If You Have Nothing”
“do not in desperation lay
the beauty of your tears upon the clay.”

“do not in desperation lay
the beauty of your tears upon the clay.”

Special guest the Rev. Hannah Wilder joins us to discuss Jesus’ apocalyptic words about remaining awake from this week’s gospel

Lisa and Jon are on a podcast sabbatical during Advent and Christmas, so we’re offering this special episode from material recorded in January of 2019.

Luci and Jordan on St Bathilde who was a slave and a queen, and a devoted servant of Christ

“It struck me that this life that I believe is mine, that I am sure belongs to me, is not mine at all. I’m taking care of a property that really belongs to God.”

“We’ve had to be alert for so long already, but the things for which we have to be vigilant are still present.”

“Heraclitus’ vision pushes us away from a competitive view of our identity, and that’s a significant counterweight to the individualism which so insidiously infects us, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not. The other is not our enemy, but the one we may need in order to hear the word which will speak to us.”

“Knock at that bible door! Pray for the-health of The World.”

“…that miracles surround us, but we miss them most of the time. We make it harder on ourselves to see the abundance of miracles that crowd around us because we too often look for the dazzling, the shockingly out of place.”

“There is only one reason for the monk’s existence: not farming, not chanting the psalms … not fasting, not manual labor, not reading, not meditation, not vigils in the night, but only God.” (Thomas Merton)