Sunday-Ps. 31:3 is a great source for a prayer of protection. Who has been a tower of strength for you? Where is your castle, internally and externally? Where do you feel safe and secure?
Monday-Memory THERE ARE TWO WAYS of remembering. One is to make an excursion from the living present back into the dead past. The old sock remembers how things used to be when you and I were young, Maggie. The faraway look in his eyes is partly the beer and partly that he's really far away. The other way is to summon the dead past back into the living present. The young widow remembers her husband, and he is there beside her.
Tuesday-I know from experience that when I allow busy little doings to fill the precious time of early morning, when contemplation might flourish, I open the doors to the demon of acedia. Noon becomes a blur – no time, no time – the wolfing down of a sandwich as I listen to the morning’s phone messages and plan the afternoon’s errands. When evening comes, I am so exhausted that vespers has become impossible. It is as if I have taken the world’s weight on my shoulders and am too greedy, and too foolish, to surrender it to God.Source: The Quotidian Mysteries
Wednesday-Joyce Rupp reminds us, " the rain-swollen clouds hold our tales of life, and drop them into the expansive lake year after year, absorbing them into the one Great Story." (courtesy Paul Reiter)
Thursday-Being a Christian promises to give us peace with God, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into a peaceful and easy life. If you’re looking for peace, tranquility, and less stress, you may not find it here. Living spirituality, following the Crucified and Risen One in the present, does not mean that all our problems will be solved, but it does enable us to live in community with God in spite of them. Christian truth offers us an engagement with reality, not an escape from it. livingspirituality.org
Friday-Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle!Here in thy harbors for a while/We lower our sails; a while we rest/ From the unending, endless quest.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saturday-In "The Work of Christ," Schleiermacher writes: "The Redeemer takes up persons into the strength of his God-consciousness, and this is his redeeming activity." The "strength" into which we are taken up by Christ is, as the footnote explains, "when transmitted to others ... an active enablement." A few pages later, Schleiermacher elaborates: "Christ's activity of taking us up into community with him is thus a creative engendering of the desire-to-take-him-up-into-oneself."*
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