Today's Life-Line is:
Where there is no love,
put love,
and you will find love.
~ St. John of the Cross
~ Sometimes it seems so obvious, so basic, so simple, that I feel indicted. ~ djm
Artwork: "Kindness Blossom," by Frederica Muraro Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
It is not an enviable position, this Christian thing. Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus doesn't say, "Blessed are the peacelovers." He says "peacemakers." He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life. And he means a vocation that includes risk. . . The Read more [...]
“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny.” ~ Thomas Merton
As most of you know, next to Jesus, Abraham Heschel is my Rabbi of choice and much of that Read more [...]
"If you hallow this life you meet the living God "
~ Martin Buber
In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when Read more [...]
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Frederick Buechner encourages us to listen to our lives. Master storyteller, he knows the narrative quality of life, that we are not merely storytellers but storied-beings. So it behooves us (how often do I get to Read more [...]