Sunday-Ps. 23 is probably the best known psalm. We often read it at graveside. To make it a bit fresh, consider re-writing it in your own words and situation.Why is it so popular, do you think?
Monday-Esther de Waal writes that Benedictine life ‘simply consists in doing the ordinary things of daily life carefully and lovingly, with the attention and reverence that can make of them a way of prayers, a way of God.’
Tuesday- "Resilience" is such a simple non-religious word: bouncing back. Examine a recent period of your life when you experienced obstacles. Can you now see traces of growth? You are resilient: instead of becoming brittle you can bounce back with creativity and compassion.IK Groff
Wednesday-If "this is our life," suspended always between birth and death, always between right and wrong, always between the past and the future, always between here and there, always between history and eternity, then being at home means coming to terms with the reality that life (our life) is indeed what happens to us, not when we've arrived at a destination we identify as "home," or "refuge," but also on the way, and not just when we're "busy making other plans," as John Lennon has said, but when we're waiting for the next meeting to begin or the connecting flight to arrive, or this mound of dirty dishes to get washed, or the kids to be driven from school to dance lessons and soccer practice, or caring for this loved one who struggles sometimes to remember our name, or waiting for the surgeon to invite us into the little family room to hear what he has found. LP{S’s Jinkins
Thursday-From Scripture Echo-May you find the paths that bring you life And the fullness of God’s joy. And may you do what you need to do: Maybe saying “No.” Maybe saying “Not this time.” Maybe saying “I can’t do that If I am going to still do this well.”
Friday-The method of wisdom literature is to stimulate our own reflection rather than providing us with answers. Wisdom means we are given responsibility for making choices and often have to act without complete certainty of outcome. This is an inherent aspect of life’s messiness.-- Christine Valters Paintner
Saturday-Thomas Merton-Sunrise is an event that calls forth solemn music in the very depths of our nature, as if one’s whole being had to attune itself to the cosmos and praise God for the new day, praise him in the name of all the creatures that ever were or ever will be. I look at the rising sun and feel that now upon me falls the responsibility of seeing what all my ancestors have seen, in the Stone Age and even before it, praising God before me. Whether or not they praised him then, for themselves, they must praise him now in me. When the sun rises each one of us is summoned by the living and the dead to praise God.
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