June 4-Ps. 104 :24-34 speaks of God’s continuing care for creation. Of special note is the fearsome leviathan, that plays in the deep ocean, both symbols of dread. Pentecost can well be called a time of new creation. It is an example of the renewal of v. 30. The psalmist knows that the spirit of God animates all animate things.
Monday-"In the Hebrew Scriptures the promise of God's abundance is often conceived of as blossoming in the desert. In that harsh landscape, a flower bursting forth from the dry land is a symbol of divine generosity, fruitfulness, and hope. Hope is a stance of radical openness to the God of newness and possibility. When we hope, we acknowledge that God has an imagination far more expansive than ours."--- Christine Valters Paintner,
Tuesday-The band Waterdeep has a song that begins, “You talk of hating war. But where’s your own peacetime?” I can get caught up in big ideas of justice and truth and neglect the small opportunities around me to extend kindness, forgiveness, and grace.-.from ESL epistle Tish Harrison Warren
Wednesday-Aldous Huxley-at every moment we are called upon to make an all-important decision to choose between the way that leads to death and spiritual darkness, and the way that leads towards light and life; between interests exclusively temporal, and the eternal order; between our personal will, and the will of God.
Thursday- the still point within each of us where God and the true self dwell. Quoted in Kerry Walters’s Soul Wilderness, Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner refers to ‘the call of the inner desert as divine grace, the hushed summons of divine mystery.’ The starting place of the desert is our experience of being at risk.”--- Christine Valters Paintner, PhD
Saturday-(We have) anticipations, the conversations we might have, the occasions we might entertain. The "what ifs" of the future rise up in our minds connected to dread or hope, anxieties and fears. And rising in our minds (promising to help prepare us for a future engagement or conversation), in fact, they sap our energy.Whether seemingly positive or positively awful, anticipations fixate us on an endless array of unrealities, worries and aspirations, when mostly we need to collect ourselves and entrust ourselves to God. Moments of imagined triumph that will finally prove our worth compete with imagined catastrophes that will prove too great for our abilities. Records of things that have never happened or will never occur play incessantly in our minds. Michael Jinkins
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rockefeller certainly did "give up on the good, to go for the great" selling out to Lucifer.
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