Month: December 2012

Blessings on the day born of night. Blessing on the earth wedded to heaven. Blessings on the creatures adorned by angels. Blessings on our bodies alive with spirit. Blessings on our minds filled with dreams. Blessings on our hearts opened by love. Blessings, blessings, blessings.   ~John Philip Newell, Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook…

“The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, “Grow, grow.” ~Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, Listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, Let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. ~Parker Palmer, Let Your Life…

A prayer upon waking  (Based on Psalm 5): I bind myself to you this day. Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in…