Author: Laurie Gudim

Humility and Peace

“Humility – an openness to what is really going on in our souls and the willingness to lay it all at God’s feet – is world-changing.  God grant that we can find the ways to give ourselves up again and again to the work that leads to such wisdom.”

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Let Light Shine

“The light of Christ is love.  As we move into love we move into God.  As you go out into the world today, remember to listen to where you are drawn through your compassion.  Let Jesus Christ be alive within you, shining from your heart into the dark places of the world.”

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Love as Practice

‘You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that “he is one, and besides him there is no other”; and “to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength”, and “to love one’s neighbor as oneself”,—this is much more important than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices,’ says the scribe in today’s reading from the Gospel of Mark.

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Rejoicing in the Present Moment

“We, too, can live from the place where, attuned to the present moment, we experience God.  “My spirit rejoices in God my Savior” is a good prayer to carry around as we go through our days.  Utter it often and see how it brings you into the Now.”

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Our Duty to Strangers

His respect for the person as vessel for the Holy shows in everything he says. “Listen with the ear of the heart,” he instructs. And, from his Rule, Chapter 53: “All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”

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Codependents or Servant Leaders?

“Serving at the food bank or homeless shelter is a great thing to do when feeling a bit depressed or unloved.  It gets us out of ourselves and gives us an experience of being of help in a very needy, divisive world.”

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Freedom

“My worries uncoiled like a spool of movie film and fell lifeless at my feet.  I wondered what had given them the power to flicker before my vision in an endless stream, generating a huge weight of useless emotion about what might happen if I didn’t shape up.”

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Being a Neighbor

“I am a very lucky gal.  I notice this every time I drive across town and see people at street corners begging.  It seems like someone with a cardboard sign has staked out every single place where cars stop to wait for traffic lights.  Me, I don’t have to beg. Not today, anyway.”

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Appreciating Mystery

“The Ascension is truly a wonder, and it puts us on the brink of mystery at the same time that it confirms us in community.”

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