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Faith as a mustard seed

April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)
If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain "move from here to there" and it will move.
~ Matthew 17:20

The Burning Bush

Emily Brown | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)

...Deep. deep down in the earth
There is the pure water

The way is down
The old sources have become clogged
New wells are sought...

That might be there
Deep down
For us

I have met her
That one
Who holds a true divining rod
That one who is seeking pure water

~ Emily Brown from "The Burning Bush" in Liberating Liturgies, Women's Ordination Conference, 1989

Silence belongs to all of us

Robert Rabbin | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)
Silence belongs to all of us— it is who we are, it is what we are. If we are to experience and embody authentic peace and love, if we are going to bring true healing to our wildly violent and endangered world, we are going to have to learn to live within this essence which joins us together as brothers and sisters.
~ Robert Rabbin from "The Healing Power of Silence" in Natural Awakenings, February 2013

The law of love governs the world

Mahatma Gandhi | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)

The law of love governs the world. Life persists in the face of death. The universe continues in spite of destruction going on. Truth triumphs over untruth. Love conquers hate.

~ Mahatma Gandhi from PEACE: THE WORDS AND INSPIRATION OF MAHATMA GANDHI

Be silent

Rumi | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)
Be silent,
Only the hand of God can remove
The burdens of your heart.
~ Rumi

For a Brief Moment

Joyce Rupp | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)

for a brief moment early spring rain ceases,
the sun breaks through
grey sky...

threads of gold
thin enough to pierce the forest,
glitter on dewdrops...
bows to brilliance,

where everything arrogant
takes off its shoes
to stand on holy ground.

~ Joyce Rupp from "For a Brief Moment" in MY SOUL FEELS LEAN: POEMS OF LOSS AND RESTORATION

Let us now open our hearts to recall

Cardinal Wilton Gregory | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)
Let us now open our hearts to recall those who have died from the coronavirus. Strengthen those families and friends who remain behind, to comfort one another and to wipe the tears from our eyes. May each one find peace and let the memory of our loved ones itself be a blessing.
~ Cardinal Wilton Gregory in a prayer offered on CNN as the United States reflected on the 500,000 lives lost, February 22, 2021

It is spring again

Rainer Maria Rilke | April 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 4)

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke in "Sonnets to Orpheus. Part One, XXI"

A Liturgy of Morning

Padraig O’Tuama | March 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 3)

... God said, 'There will be dreams from the night that will need the light of the morning.’ And so God put wisdom in the early hours.

... God said: 'Let there be a certain kind of light that can only be seen in the morning.’ And God created gold, and dew, and horizons, and hills in the distance, and faces that look different in the light of the morning, and things that look different in the light of the morning...
And God said that it was Good.

~ Padraig O’Tuama from "A Liturgy of the Morning" in DAILY PRAYERS WITH THE CORRYMEELA COMMUNITY

Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton | March 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 3)

may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that

~ Lucille Clifton from "Blessing the Boats (at St. Mary's)" in QUILTING
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