At the Hinge – Oct. 17, 2022
You brood in the night in its fearfulness,You dawn the day in its energy, You move at the edge of night into the margin of day.You take the feeble night and give us strong day, You take our fatigue and bestow courage, You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal.What shall we say? You, […]
Freedom Exultant – Oct. 14, 2022
Faint not nor fear, but go out to the storm and the action, trusting in God whose commandment you faithfully follow. Freedom, exultant, will welcome your spirit with joy. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 371
Growing in Interior Freedom – Oct. 3, 2022
“The challenge and grace for each of us is a growing interior freedom—freedom from all that locks us in or that stands in the way of love; freedom for all that beckons to compassionate care; freedom to stand before God with one another in neediness and to receive all as gift. This poverty also includes […]
Mystery of Hope – Sept. 28, 2022
“Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, put it this way: “Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at […]
