Sunday-Ps.15 runs through some of the commandments. It is concerned with the use of words at v. 3. How do you use words, in prayer, in self-talk, and to or about others?
Monday-We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday-God speaks to us through our lives, we often too easily say. Something speaks anyway, spells out some sort of godly or godforsaken meaning to us through the alphabet of our years, but often it takes many years and many further spellings out before we start to glimpse, or think we do, a little of what that meaning is. Even then we glimpse it only dimly, like the first trace of dawn on the rim of night, and even then it is a meaning that we cannot fix and be sure of once and for all because it is always incarnate meaning and thus as alive and changing as we are ourselves alive and changing.
Wednesday-The life of each of us is woven of two threads: the thread of inward development, by which our human and spiritual attitudes are gradually formed; and the thread of outward engagement, by which we always find ourselves at the point where the whole sum of the forces of the universe meet together to work in us the effect which God desires. (Adapted from Teilhard de Chardin,The Divine Milieu). How is the ratio of these two threads in your life?
Thursday-When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
Friday-The practice of humility is an invitation to allow others to offer us wisdom, to recognize that we don’t always have the answer ourselves. The root of the word humility is humus, which means “of the earth.” To be humble means to be profoundly earthy and grounded, to remember from where we arise and to where we return.”.--- Christine Valters Paintner
Saturday-Michael Jinkins-Whatever we will do we must do in the shadow of the Fall.
Our moral vision will never be whole.Our intentions and motives inevitably will be mixed.
Our complicity in Sin cannot be erased.We can, however, entrust ourselves to the God whose vision and will are true, and whose mercy is everlasting.
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