Let perseverance finish it’s work so you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Together with all living things, you share the breath of life, participating in the same cycles of birth and death, reproduction and recycling and renewal. You, with them, are part of the story of creation – different branches on the tree of life. In that story you are connected and related to everything everywhere.

In fact, that is a good partial definition of God: God is the one through whom we are related and connected to everything.

p. 8, being human: alive in the story of creation; We make the road by walking, Brian D. McClaren

Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned, for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days n earth are but a shadow. Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

In order to be a living tradition, a living way, it must forever open itself forward and forever remain unfinished – even as it forever cherishes and learns from the growing treasury of its past.

preface xii, we make the road by walking, Brian d. Mclaren.

To be deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while to love someone deeply gives you courage.

light tomorrow with today

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

The past is your ally in repairing your present and ensuring a better future.

p. 72, boundaries, cloud and townsend

Any confusion of responsibility and ownership in our lives is a problem of boundaries. Just as homeowners set physical property lines around their land, we need to set mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries for our lives to help us distinguish what is our responsibility and what isn’t.

p. 25, Boundaries, Cloud and Townsend, 1992.

When we spend our time caught up in the changing circumstances of our lives without grounding ourselves in the reality of eternity it can be overwhelming.

hope for today, Sara Perry 2020