Friday, November 30, 2012

Abundant Life

Night 16(2012, 11.21) by rchoephoto
Night 16(2012, 11.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To be free of indifference would be
to have life more abundantly.

Wendell Berry, Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Quarrels

Created with ToonCamera by rchoephoto
Created with ToonCamera, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric;
     out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

        W. B. Yeats

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012

Love

Toon Iona Cross by rchoephoto
Toon Iona Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Friday, November 23, 2012

Mirrors we use

Bloor & Avenue #5 by rchoephoto
Bloor & Avenue #5, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


What we don't see is that
the mirrors we use are distorted.

Mark Labberton,
The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

Thursday, November 22, 2012

The Enemy of the Moment

Crown of Thorns by Tune by rchoephoto
Crown of Thorns by Tune, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


War had been literally continuous, thought strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. ... 
The enemy of the moment always represented 
absolute evil.

George Orwell, 1984

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Myth of War

RCC_9693 by rchoephoto
RCC_9693, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The myth of war is essential to justify the horrible sacrifices
     required in war, the destruction and the death of innocents.
     It can be formed only by denying the reality of war, by turning
     the lies, the manipulation, the inhumanness of war into heroic
     ideal. 

        Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

We

Humber Valley United Church 55 by rchoephoto
Humber Valley United Church 55, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The word we names our sight-lines.
We refers to the boundaries of a way of seeing.
It's true, each of us can only live life in the first person.
But we is not neutral. We share with some other a lens
that may be built into every frame of reference.
Experience, categories, personality, gender, language, 
race, culture combine to form why and how we see.

Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

Monday, November 19, 2012

Action

East Plains United Church 3 by rchoephoto
East Plains United Church 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     All that is necessary for evil to triumph is
     for good men (and women) to do nothing.

         Edmund Burke

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Reflection Questions

La Cage Aux Folles 2 by rchoephoto
La Cage Aux Folles 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


What words capture your social and spiritual location
in the world? Which aspects of your social or spiritual location do you think are the most influential in your life? 

Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Faith

Iona Cross 3 by rchoephoto
Iona Cross 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Faith is an indispensable component or dimension
     of every human life and has to do with the absolute source
     of meaning and values. 

        Juan Luis Segundo, Faith and Ideologies

Friday, November 16, 2012

Political Theology

DSC_8765 by rchoephoto
DSC_8765, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Political Theology.
This does not mean reducing theology to politics;

it does mean making theology more conscious of
and intentional about its political function,
bringing out the political meaning and implications of every aspect of faith.

Harold Wells, A Future for Socialism?

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Journey

Rosetta McClain Gardens 6 by rchoephoto
Rosetta McClain Gardens 6, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If you only walk on sunny days,
     you will never reach your destination.


        Paulo Coehlo, Aleph

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Love of Neighbour

Face 1 by rchoephoto
Face 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love of neighbour is especially love for those who are most oppressed and most in need.

Harold Wells, A Future for Socialism?

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Path to Reconciliation

Cenotaph, Paris, Ontario by rchoephoto
Cenotaph, Paris, Ontario, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It is when you can feel your opponent's pain that you begin
     the path to reconciliations.

        Jonathan Sacks

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Silence

Rosetta McClain Gardens 11 by rchoephoto
Rosetta McClain Gardens 11, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Silence is the home of the word. 
Silence gives strength and fruitfulness to the world.
We can even say that words are meant to disclose

the mystery of the silence from which they come.

Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Hope

Play Ground, Christian Island by rchoephoto
Play Ground, Christian Island, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.


William Blake, The Human Abstract

Monday, November 5, 2012

Truth about Myself

Beauty by a window 1 by rchoephoto
Beauty by a window 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     O God
     help me
     to believe
     the truth about myself
     no matter
     how beautiful it is!


     Macrina Wiederkehr

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Dance for Joy

Heading South 1 by rchoephoto
Heading South 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


May all things move and be moved in me
     and know and be known in me.
May all creation
     dance for joy within me.


       Chinook Psalter

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012

Loving Circles

Purple in Autumn by rchoephoto
Purple in Autumn, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Open your fists
into embraces
Open your arms' length
into loving circles.


James Broughton

Thursday, November 1, 2012

All in One

Light, AUC by rchoephoto

Light, AUC, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Great knowledge sees all in one.
Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu