“Each religion this nation harbors brings its own understanding of you, and together we share a picture that is more complete than any individual faith can provide.”
What makes a journey into a pilgrimage? These past two weeks I have been (as one wildly privileged) travelling in Britain, visiting family and taking
“Together, the plants strengthen and protect one another. They are waiting together, reaching for the sun. The red, yellow, and orange colors reveal such beauty, offering seeds and new life with every touch of the wind. The light shining down touches them all.”
“Stephen teaches us to forgive in the most terrible times. He teaches us about a good death, even bleeding from a hundred wounds.”
“Hard as it is, these bodies are dead. We can not help them. But there are other bodies, living bodies. If we set our face to the future, we know that we’d better fight like hell for those bodies.”
“We see those children packed into detention centers, many of them mere tents, far from their parents, lost, alone, frightened, dirty, sometimes sickly, and probably hungry. These are lambs, and lambs are supposed to be tended, fed, and cared for because they don’t know how to fight for themselves.”
“We each get a lifetime, and while we don’t get too choose how long it will be, we can choose, to some extent, what to do with it.”
“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.”
“Perhaps Jesus is like the aperture in a camera obscura. He is the opening between two worlds and two truths. He shows us things that are outside our perception, things which we have walled ourselves off from. He is the means through which we can see that which is eternal.”
“Wherever we go, be with us, Lord. Open our eyes to the beauty of your creation, teach us to marvel at the cricket’s nighttime music, and the hummingbird’s beating wings. In airports, along state highways, or high above the clouds, may our response be words of awe and praise: How marvelous is your creation, Lord.”