Be strong and of a good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Wise people can still listen and learn;
even they can find good advice in these words.

What would I find in my own heart if the noise of the world were silenced? Who would I be? Who will I be, when loss or crisis or the depredation of time take away the trappings of success, of self-importance, even personality itself?

p. 295, The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris

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