It is the emphatic integration of many experiences “out there” into the one unifying principle within each of us. Spirituality is a time when we truly understand that reason is not a luxury we cannot afford, but a necessity without which we cannot function…

pp. 213-214, Brickner, Finding God in the Garden

Increasingly, I am persuaded that the beginning of all faith
ought to be inquiry, doubt, and disbelief.
Our first statement ought to be I wonder, not I believe.

p. 213, Balfour Brickner, Finding God in the Garden

Labour not to be rich;
cease from thine own wisdom.

I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.

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