Sunday-Ps.66:8-20-speaks of god hearing a prayer. When do you think a prayer is heard? When do you think it is not heard, if ever? What impels the wish for a prayer to be heard?
Monday-Maya Angelou-Many believe that they need company at any cost, and certainly if a thing is desired at any cost, it will be obtained at all costs. We need to remember and to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone, at times it is positively to be wished for. It is in the interludes between being in company that we talk to ourselves. In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.
Tuesday-"What I know to be really, deeply true, is that when we are awake, when we have the courage to always be looking at a wider and more embracing horizon, that we will always be on a threshold of one kind or another. Perhaps you were hoping to arrive somewhere. But the journey is really about discovering that we are always in motion, always listening to what is awakening and being birthed.”
--- Christine Valters Paintner
Wednesday-Help me to journey beyond the familiar/ and into the unknown./Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. Christ of the mysteries, I trust You
to be stronger than each storm within me. I will trust in the darkness and know
that my times, even now, are in Your hand. Tune my spirit to the music of heaven,
and somehow, make my obedience count for You.—The Prayer of St. Brendan
Thursday-"God's glory is the human being fully alive," said Iranaeus in the second century.imagine the Christ in you as fully alive--reaching outward into infinity of space and time--reaching downward into the earthy dust of this finite life. To live fully alive involves tension linking heaven and earth in us as Christ's body-Ira Groff
Friday-HATE IS AS all-absorbing as love, as irrational, and in its own way as satisfying. As lovers thrive on the presence of the beloved, haters revel in encounters with the one they hate. They confirm him in all his darkest suspicions. They add fuel to all his most burning animosities. The anticipation of them makes the hating heart pound.Buechner
Saturday-Wisdom from the Talmud: "We do not see [and hear] things as they are; we see [and hear] things as we are."
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