“Recalling the biblical passage helps me remember that my part of the bargain is to seek and that God will provide what I need. I also should remember that God’s imagination is greater than mine and that God might have something better in store for me than what I am seeking. This was the case with this opportunity, and it came from an unexpected place, not at all where I was looking.”
“I have read the suggestion that perhaps we are in a time of communion fasting. That our loneliness, our physical distancing and no touching is sacrificial. That the real worship of our time is to embrace the poor, literally feed the hungry Body of Christ. Give our own blood.”
David and Charlette discuss Jesus’ teaching of the Beatitudes
“Saints of God, living clouds of witness
to our faith, intercede for us as we remember you!”
It’s All Saints (& All Hallows Eve and All Souls) and we take a minute to wonder at the amazing web of relationships that takes us all back to Jesus’ side.
Seven medieval English nuns who forged the path for courageous and feminine ways of faith
“An old friend once called this season “Hallowthankmas,” because the three holidays are somewhat run together like water spilled over damp watercolor paintings.”
Some of those charged told Reuters they had been stigmatized as a result of the raid and a televised news conference held by police in which they were identified the day after their arrest in 2018. Another of the men said the striking out of the case would not help him to be reconciled with his family who had rejected him over the matter.
“It is clear from many lessons of history that violence does not root out violence, though it may change around who are the perpetrators and who are the victims. The challenge is to loosen the bonds of society enough that those who are oppressed are released, but the whole body of a community does not dissolve. It is to loosen, and then retie those bonds in a shape that more resembles justice.”
“‘Don’t say that. We will have another presidential election in four years. Maybe not a woman, but you will know another president.’ This spoken to an octogenarian in fragile health. I could not tolerate hopelessness in the most hopeful person I knew.”