Reflection for January 25, 2012

I am a little pencil

in the hand of a writing God

who is sending a love letter

to the world. Mother Teresa

Reflection for January 18, 2012

What Can I Say - Mary Oliver

What can I say that I have not said before?

So, I’ll say it again.

The leaf has a song in it.

Stone is the face of patience.

Inside the river there is an unfinished story

and you are somewhere in it

and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the

chamber of commerce

but take it also to the forest.

The song you heard singing in the leaf when you

were a child

is singing still.

I am of years lived. So far, seventy-four,

and the leaf is singing still.

INTENTION - Kay Ryan

Intention doesn’t sweeten.

It should be picked young

and eaten. Sometimes only hours

separate the cotyledon

from the wooden plant.

Then if you want to eat it,

you can’t.

Reflection for January 11, 2012

It's very important to experience doubt. I think faith without doubt

is either nostalgia or a kind of addiction.

Mary Gordon

As Gerald Haslam's father approached death, he asked

his son,"Do you really believe that stuff?"

He replied, "I consider the human mind to be

a distinctly limited instrument, and believe

life's meaning is beyond rational grasp.

I further believe there is a reality

dwelling beyond the cusp of the known and the

unknowable, and I willingly acquiesce to the

supernatural promise of Christianity.

'Haslam's Valley," Gerald Haslam

Reflection for January 4, 2012

Song on the Feast of the Epiphany

Be bold like the Maji.

Do not tarry, settling into your comfort,

but rather set out

keeping the star in your vision.

It will lead you to a place

you are most in need of

the place where God is.

And if an angel warns you in a dream

not to return by the old way,

please listen.

From Luminous Night, Christine Rodgers

Reflection for January 4, 2012