Sunday-Ps. 95 is a hymn to god as Ruler. toward the end it refers us to another reading today in Ex. 17 of a dispute over finding water in the desert. Here it imagines God’s fury atan incapacity to trust as not permitting them to find rest in god. Is spiritual restlessness a sign of searching or cna it be a sign of deep mistrust?
Monday-God, kindle Thou in my heart within/A flame of love to my neighbor,/To my foe, to my friend, to my kindred all,/ To the brave, to the knave, to the thrall,/O Son of the loveliest Mary, /From the lowliest thing that liveth/ To the name that is highest of all.-Kent Ira Groff © Lately people have been using Irish prayers as a guide ot their prayer lives, and I thought this was a lovely example.
Tuesday- Weaving in and out of lives/I've come to know/the letting go/as the surrender in that war/between my roots and wings.-MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, Seasons of Your Heart where do you most need to let go of some things in your life so you cna fly? where do you need ot keep solide roots?
Wednesday-The Church is always God hung between two thieves. Thus, no one should be surprised or shocked at how badly the church has betrayed the gospel and how much it continues to do so today. It had never done very well. Conversely, however, nobody should deny the good the church has done either. It has carried grace, produced saints, morally challenged the planet, and made, however imperfectly, a house for God to dwell in on this earth. Ronald Rolheiser
Thursday-"If it were possible," he continues, "to read the histories of those who are doomed to have no historian, and to glance into domestic journals as well as into national archives we should then perceive the unjust prodigality of our sympathy to those few names, which eloquence has adorned with all the seduction of her graces."from Michael Jinkins Go back over the course of some years and track some key elements that made up peaks and valleys of your own experience or of a loved one.
Friday- What is all this juice and all this joy?/A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.–Have, get, before it cloy,Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.-Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Saturday“-Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.” ― Michèle Halberstadt, The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel What builds up your confidence and what attacks it.? Bear in mind the root of confidence is faith in Latin.
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