Week of July 30 reflections

Sunday-Ps. 105:3-5.Select , please, just one of these verses. For me, , it is v. 4 on divine presence. I have learned to seek it in the everyday as well as in Biblie, a vision, a great action. There I find the security of an unfailingly loving presence.

Monday-But out of his own unhappiness, man is always eager to point out his neighbor’s faults. ~ Kierkegaard

Tuesday-“Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

Wednesday-Thornton Wilder-Soon we shall die and all memory of those we have known will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thursday-To paraphrase Emerson: A friend is someone who knows where you've been, accepts you as you are, and still invites you to grow."*How can I be open to the transforming rhythm of coming and going of a friend?*How can I cultivate my friendship with God? Ira Groff

Friday-Mother Teresa-If you are searching for God and do not know where to begin, learn to pray. Take the trouble to pray every day. You can pray anytime, anywhere. You can pray at work – work doesn’t have to stop prayer and prayer doesn’t have to stop work. Tell him everything; talk to him. He is our father; he is father to us all, whatever religion we are. We are all created by God, we are his children. We have to put our trust in him and love him, believe in him, and work for him. If we pray, we will get all the answers we need

Saturday-Rainer Maria Rilke-To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.