Sunday-Ps.62:5-12 is our listed prayer for our readings today. Rock has a masculine sound to me, but it refers often to the maternal finding of a place to give birth. The rest and protection the writer seeks is at the end, a loving god. So often, we ignorantly speak of the violent Old Testament God. Where do you seek rest in god? Have you discovered that rest at some points in life?
Monday-We refuse to take ourselves too seriously. Laughter makes us larger. Our motto: Lighten Up. We see full well the absurdities in our present state of human nature. Yet, we are not cynics. We refuse to be abstemious in our thinking or rigid in our rules or stingy with our compassion. Patricia Adams Farmer
Tuesday-One definition of spirituality is "the art of making connections." There are certain givens: The one is made up of many. One thing always leads to another. Everything is related to everything else. You practice connections, then, by consciously tracing the links connecting you with other beings. Any point is a good starting place — your family line, your work, your back yard. Watch for the moments when the separations disappear. And don't be shy about naming mystical experiences as such when you experience them.From Spirituality and Practice
Wednesday- 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.Originally published in The Sacred Journey
Thursday-“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ― Ellen Goodman
Friday-As we age, we are not losing days to the past; the future comes to us every day as a new gift. Mirolsav Volf So often, we refer to growing older as the winter season of life. Volf reminds us that every day we awake brings the promise of the future.
Saturday-The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies,
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