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Today's Life-Line is:
What does the Lord require of you?
To act justly, to love kindly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
~ Micah 6:8 Read more [...]
Tag Archives: Justice
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~ Friends, in case you haven't noticed, I have taken a temporary hiatus from posting any writings. For now, I will keep offering Life-Lines on Mondays and TUESDAYS WITH STORY each week. Keep checking, I will be posting essays and reflections before Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
It is a sad day for our country when we trade the majestic, hope-filled symbolism of the Statue of Liberty for an ineffective and grotesque wall which both displays and inflames the ethnic and cultural divisions that have long Read more [...]
TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/6/18
"And who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29)
"There was once an ordinary woman who lived in a small town near Modesto, California. She was not famous, powerful or influential. I do not know her name. I was told this true story about her. She was the kind Read more [...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ A Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
There is something unfolding in the universe whether one speaks of it as an unconscious process, or whether one speaks of it as an unmoved mover, or whether one speaks of it as a personal God. There is something in the universe Read more [...]
An Intimate and Necessary Connection
Those who have no flame in their hearts for justice, no consciousness of responsibility for the reign of God, no raging commitment to human community may indeed be seeking God. But make no mistake, God is still, at best, only an idea to them, Read more [...]
Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap. 1940-2017
I just learned Fr. Michael Crosby died today. Michael, a Capuchin Franciscan from Milwaukee, was a frequent speaker and retreat leader at the Center for Spiritual Development where I worked for nearly 10 years. With his Franciscan heart, Michael was one Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Our greatest privilege is also our greatest responsibility.
Not only to seek and to find the treasure hidden in the field
but to uncover and reveal all those other places
where the Divine is hiding in our midst and longing Read more [...]
Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness
Fine wine takes time. ~ every skilled vintner
It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso
I have said elsewhere that the tendency to skip over Good Friday and to rush unperturbed and undisturbed in our Sunday best to Easter is fraught Read more [...]
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Today's Life-Line is:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more [...]