Christ’s Hands Are Yours – Apr. 8, 2020
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours,Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ’s compassion to the world;Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. –St. Teresa of Avila
From the Prayer of Saint Francis – Apr. 7, 2020
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seekTo be consoled as to console,To be understood as to understand,To be loved as to love;For it is in giving that we receive;It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. –St. Francis of […]
Let Nothing Upset You – Apr. 6, 2020
Let nothing upset you;Let nothing frighten you.Everything is changing;God alone is changeless.Patience attains the goal.Who has God lacks nothing:God alone fills every need. –St. Teresa of Avila [Selections for your daily reflections this week come from God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose selected by Eknath Easwaran.]
Friendship – Apr. 3, 2020
“Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on after death, the exchange only transmuted by absence, the relationship advancing and maturing in a silent internal conversational way even after one half of the bond has passed on.” –David Whyte, Consolations