Sunday-Ps. 40 deserves attention over and over. In the new year, look at v. 3. Where would you like a new song?
Monday-"At the heart of Merton's spirituality is his distinction between our real and false selves. Our false selves are the identities we cultivate in order to function in society with pride and self-possession; our real selves are a deep religious mystery, known entirely only to God. The world cultivates the false self, ignores the real one, and therein lies the great irony of human existence: the more we make of ourselves, the less we actually exist."
Tuesday-Everything in creation carries divine DNA. How could it not? Our identity comes with the manufacturing! Or as Paul so clearly puts it, 'We were chosen in Christ before the world began' Richard Rohr
Wednesday-NT Wright-Of course, in contrast to a world focused on power and image, we operate with weakness and suffering for the sake of others. It is being Jesus for the world, acting in ways consistent with his own manner of life and with His authority exercised in humility and gentleness. In so doing, the powers of this age are robbed of their influence.
Thursday-Faith is like the dream in which the clouds open to show such riches ready to drop upon us that when we wake into the reality of nothing more than common sense, we cry to dream again because the dreaming seems truer than the waking does to the fullness of reality not as we have seen it, to be sure, but as by faith we trust it to be without seeing. Faith is both the dreaming and the crying. Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all. Faith in something — if only in the proposition that life is better than death — is what makes our journeys through time bearable. The Sacred Journey
Friday-In Jesus Christ God broke into the world for everyone, no matter our backgrounds.How will you look for glimpses of the Spirit breaking into our world today? Maybe you’ll get a glimpse as you pay close attention to life as it comes to us.
Saturday-you may in the privacy of the heart take out the album of your own life and search it for the people and places you have loved and learned from yourself, and for those moments in the past — many of them half forgotten —through which you glimpsed, however dimly and fleetingly, the sacredness of your own journey.- The Sacred Journey
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