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Mercy is greater
A turquoise table
How to manage
Friday from the archives
Some more excerpts from Deb Herbeck’s book, Safely Through the Storm:
I will not mistrust [God], thought I feel myself weakening and on the verge of being overcome by fear . . . .I trust he shall place his holy hand on me and in the stormy seas hold me up from drowning. (St. Thomas More)
Go and find him when your patience and strength give out and you feel alone and helpless. Jesus is waiting for you in the chapel. Say to him, “Jesus, you know exactly what is going on. You are all that I have, and you know all. Come to my help.” And then go, and don’t worry about how you are going to manage. That you have told God about it is enough. He has a good memory. (St. Jeanne Jugan)
All things fail, but You, O Lord of them all, never fail. …
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Going through the waters?
Wanting to be who you are
“The Little Way finds joy in the present moment, in being pleased to be the person you are, whoever you are. It is a school of self-acceptance, which goes beyond accepting who you are to wanting to be who you are. It is a way of coming to terms with life not as it might be but as it is.” (Bishop Patrick Ahern)
I stand at the door of your heart
Not All Gold
Not All Gold
(for KJM)
Not all gold in deep vaults is locked away.
Not all gold is sealed, seamed in stone, from day.
Not all gold is sluiced into crystal streams,
Deeply dug, fire tried, forged and formed for dreams
That circle fingers, slim and supple necks.
Not all gold forms crowns or pours gilded decks
Down rivers rowed by slaves in chains below
Not all gold, not all gold will you find so.
There is a gold so sweet and free you’d cry
To hold, though freely let it from you fly.
Beyond reach this gold, of hand but not eye,
Appears above you in the morning sky
And lights the edges of the tallest leaves
Dancing in very tops of all the trees.
Before the wind wakes and shakes down the dew
It shatters green, this gold, the last bit of night
And scatters little diamonds from the height
To the waiting eye and memory. You
Will find it so at dawn’s coming when with ease
In golden air, clear shifting, shaping, still
You spy shimmering in morning breeze,
The gold of God and his creating thrill.
-Peadar Ban
Originally posted here.
“If we meet unkindness today . . .”
Friday from the archives.
Lk 9.52-53 They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for Him. And they did not receive Him, because His face was set toward Jerusalem.
Lk 10.33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
Of all unkind things, one of the unkindest is to refuse to give a tired traveler a place to rest. No Indian would do that. [Note: Amy Carmichael lived in India.] But the Samaritans did it: They did not receive Him.
When anyone has been unkind to us, what do we feel inclined to do? How do we feel inclined to speak of them?
A little while after this unkindness of the Samaritans, our Lord Jesus told a story about kindness, and of all the people of Palestine He chose a Samaritan as an illustration of true…
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To one in trouble
Friday from the archives.
Life is busy; it’s still too hot for me; I’m not sleeping well; my internet connection is spotty; I’m “leaving town” for a week and a half and have a lot to do before and afterwards; and I have no inspiration. I don’t mean to complain, just to explain. This meditation from Amy Carmichael is for me–but you can read it as well.
I want to give you a word that helped me all yesterday and will help me today. It is the ‘through’ of Psalm 84.6 [“Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs”] and of Isaiah 43.2 [“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overcome you”] taken with Song of Songs 8.5 [“Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?”].
We are never staying in the valley or…
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Witnesses to Hope 