Life has a practice of living you,
if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Life
Life has a practice of living you,
if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Breathe
Breathe in experience,
breathe out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Capacity to receive
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Living
Living is the original art.
Mark Nepo,
As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul
Friday, January 4, 2013
Disturbing the war
They'll say we're disturbing the peace,
but there is no peace.
What really bothers them is that
we are disturbing the war.
Howard Zinn
Thursday, January 3, 2013
by our children
The world has not left us by our parents,
it was lent us by our children.
African Proverb
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Hunger for Bread & Justice
O God, to those who have hunger give bread,
And to us who have bread give the hunger for justice.
Prayer from Latin America
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
God in me
I believe that God is in me
as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of flower –
the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
Monday, December 31, 2012
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
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Lock & Key
The Friend is the key and I am the lock.
Jalil al-Din Rumi
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Never too late
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Friday, December 28, 2012
True Civilization
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers, A Cherokee,
Quoted in The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Thursday, December 27, 2012
God's Paintbrush
Sometimes on a bright day
when I close my eyes real tight,
I see all kinds of colours —
green and purple and red and blue.
I think these are just like God's colours.
I know God's colours are in me, too.
And I can paint with God's paintbrush.
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, God's Paintbrush
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Christmas Lessons
RC1_0082, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell
Each Christmas come since World War I I've learned its lessons well
That the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we're the same.
John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Birthing
What good is it to me,
if the son of God was born to Mary 1,400 years ago
but is not born in my person and in my culture and in my time?
Meister Eckhart
Monday, December 24, 2012
Haitian Angels
The
Church – the body of Christ.
Christ who dined with tax gatherers and prostitutes.
Christ who affirmed women and respected them.
Christ who praised the Samaritan and the Roman.
Christ who stretched out his hand to the lame.
Two Thousand years later, when will we learn?
Jean Mayland,
Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Community, edited by Geoffrey Duncan
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Enthusiasm & Humility
No act of generosity was ever accomplished
without two things: enthusiasm and humility.
Michael Powell, A Thousand Paths to Generosity
Friday, December 21, 2012
To Love
To Love another person is
to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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