Reflections for January 26, 2011

A Garden For Daily Living

PLANT THREE TOWS OF PEAS:

Peace of mind

Peace of heart

Peace of soul

PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:

Squash gossip

Squash indifference

Squash intolerance

Squash selfishness

PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:

Lettuce be faithful

Lettuce be kind

Lettuce be just

Lettuce truly love one another

NO GARDEN SHOULD BE WITHOUT TURNIPS:

Turnip for service when needed

Turnip to help one another

Turnip the music and dance

TO NURTURE A GARDEN YOU MUST HAVE THYME:

Thyme for others

Thyme for self

WATER with patience and CULTIVATE with love

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Reflection for January 19, 2011

What's In The Temple?

In the quiet spaces of my mind a thought lies still, but ready to spring.

It begs me to open the door so it can walk about.

The poets speak in obscure terms pointing madly at the unsayable.

The sages say nothing, but walk ahead patting their thigh calling for us to follow.

The monk sits pen in hand poised to explain the cloud of unknowing.

The seeker seeks, just around the corner from the truth.

If she stands still it will catch up with her. Pause with us here a while.

Put your ear to the wall of your heart.

Listen for the whisper of knowing there. Love will touch you if you are very still.

Tom Barrett

Reflection for January 12, 2011

To be tormented by restlessness is to be human. But in accepting, truly, that humanity we become more easy in our restlessness. Why? Because, as Karl Rahner puts it, in this life there is no finished symphony, everything comes with an undertow of restlessness and inadequacy. Peace can come to us only when we accept that fact, because it is only then that we will stop demanding that life – our spouses, our families, our friends, our jobs, our vocations, our vacations – give us something that they cannot give, the finished symphony, clear-cut pure joy, complete consummation.

Ronald Rolheiser, Against an Infinite Horizon

The one journey that ultimately matters is the journey into the place of stillness deep within one’s self. To reach that place is to be at home; to fail to reach it is to be forever restless.

N. Gordon Cosby

Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

St. Augustine, 355 – 430

Reflection for January 5, 2011

EPIPHANY CELEBRATION

This is the link to the u-tube that was presented during meditation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

Be sure to hit the screen twice in order to fill the entire screen with the picture.