We can practice faith, hope and love. We can produce the fruits of the Spirit. We can live in conscious union with God. In fact, anything else is loss, something wasted that cannot be reclaimed.
So often when I see the grotesque suffering and senseless killing that fills our globe I feel like my prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who is able to save them from death are futile and hopeless. Nothing is changed. People die daily. Injustice abounds. For so many there is no escape; there is no answer.
Compassion and love. These are our highest aspirations and values. Compassion and love — the antidote to fear, greed and power
We are invited to have soft hearts, hearts open to the transforming love of God. And our example is Jesus.
Jealousy, prejudice and violence is healed by blessing and community.
It is our great myths that speak to the most compelling and mysterious questions. When we speak of Mystery itself, when we speak of the Divine, it is story and dance (liturgy) and prayer that communicates most deeply.
Today may my words, my breath, and my being be one with the divine consciousness for which I was breathed into life.
Epiphany is the day when we celebrate the vision that Jesus is for everybody.
[Reinhold] Niebuhr sensed that our proclivity to perpetuate sin and injustice is even greater when we act as groups or institutions than it is when we act as individuals. We are less moral in groups and nations than we are as individuals.
Below the rough sea and daily bread, and beyond the wind, earthquake and fire, there is the food that endures for eternal life. It is food that is often given to us in the sound of sheer silence.