Truly our speech is a great responsibility!

Titus Yoder, Thorndike, ME
Beside the Still Water
Volume 28, Issue 4

In youth, we learn, in age, we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenback

But many of us have interpreted Jesus’ ascension and enthronement to mean it is now time to get to work, living in light of what Jesus already taught us.
We’re convinced that what matters now is not for Christ to appear to us, but for Christ to appear in us, among us, and through us.

p. 182, chapter 36, we make the road by walking, Brian D. McLaren

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Fellowship is a kind of belonging that isn’t based on status, achievement, or gender, but is based on a deep belief that everyone matters, everyone is welcome, and everyone is loved, no conditions, no exceptions.

p. 175, the uprising of fellowship, we make the road by walking, Brian D. McLaren.

Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.

May love be the thread that runs through our actions and our words. It is never too late to walk in the way of love.

hope for today, Sara Perry

Pray in secret through four movements of your heart.
First orient yourself toward a caring yet mysterious God.
Second align your desires with God’s great desire for a just and compassionate world. Third bring to God your needs and concerns both physical and spiritual.
Finally, prepare to enter the public world of temptation and oppression, trusting God to guide you and strengthen you.

p. 146, Chpt 31, The Choice is Yours, We Make the Road by Walking. Brian D. McLaren

Bring ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Bertha Mae Lillenas

Bring your load of doubts and fears.

All the burdens of the years.

you may meet your savior and his blessings share.

Bring your troubles not a few, Jesus will your strength renew; Leave your burden at the place of prayer.N

As someone has said, he who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then to discover that the prisoner was you.

Mark Kropf, Halsey Oregon
Beside the Still waters
Volume 28, issue 4

May all that is unforgiven in you be released.

May your fears yield from their deepest tranquilities.

May all that is unlived in you blossom

into a future

Lived with grace

John ODonahue