Blessings

Bloor & Avenue #1 (2012,11.7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Like a star should your love be constant.

Like a stone should your love be firm.

Be close, yet not too close.

Possess one another, yet be understanding.

Have patience each with the other.

For storms will come but they will go quickly.

Be free in giving of affection and warmth.

Have no fear and let not the ways of words

Of the unenlightened give you unease.

For the spirit is with you.

Now and always.

Source unknown,

Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Community, edited by Geoffrey Duncan

Mirrors we use

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

Belief

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I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Marian Wright Edelman

Being Birthed

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The birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you.

John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom