Sunday-Ps. 104 is an ode to creation. Please consider working with an element of creation from science and build a prayer around it. Find a picture that attracts you and build a prayer around it. Read a book on scientific advances and connect it to this psalm.
Monday-St. Augustine wrote: "In this prayer, all whom He redeemed, whether then alive or thereafter to live in the flesh, were prayed for by our Redeemer ... He conjoined those who were yet to believe on Him through their word" (Tractate 108). In other words, we also are being prayed for in Jesus' intercessory prayer. So we, too, may "listen in" and meditate on his prayer as we go about our daily lives of discipleship.
Tuesday-“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.” —Julian of Norwich
Wednesday-We sometimes think of the journey as a linear path to travel, when in reality we travel more in circles and spirals. We don’t arrive at the summit and proclaim ourselves done and complete. We arrive back at the desires which set us on the path in the first path, but perhaps with deeper wisdom or more doubts this time around.Pilgrimage leads us home again, but that home is deep within each of us. We will cycle through our lives over and over, meeting old themes and habits again, being invited to release, to walk forward in trust, to embrace mystery many times. (from Abbey of the Arts)
Thursday-On her deathbed, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked,"What is the answer?" Then, after a long silence, "What is the question?" Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.(F. Buechner)
Friday-Tagore speaks:“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. …I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee and that thou art my best friend but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room.” –Tagore-Macrina speaks:What is the tinsel that fills my room? What confines and restricts me? What unnecessary stuff (inner or outer) weighs me down? What obstacles prevent me from being my best self? These questions do not necessarily have to be answered—just pondered.(Macrina Wiederkehr)
Saturday-The price of wisdom, in the biblical sense, is the willingness to learn: "Get wisdom, and whatever else you learn, get insight," say the biblical wise ones (Prov. 4:7b, NRSV). The price of learning is sometimes unlearning—having our illusions exploded.For the Spirit to "guide us into all truth, as Jesus promises (see John 16:13) we must learn that ignorance is our enemy, naïveté a false friend, guileless not always a virtue, and total innocence undesirable.(from Weavings)
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