Month: December 2012

Lord of all Wisdom,   We thank you for your Word, Jesus Christ. Illumine our minds and bodies by that Word so that we might see every part of your creation as a reflection of your glory.   In particular help us not miss the small and contingent rocks, plants and animals in which children…

God sent a present into the world, the gift of a loving presence named Jesus. The gospel stories indicate that Jesus gave few material things to people. What he gave most was his personal presence, gifts that were treasure of the heart: belief in self, inner healing, peace of mind, compassion, forgiveness, dignity and justice.…

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.    Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year

We can be reconciled to life in its severest aspects if we are confident that the disasters are not meaningless, and that the valley can be made a place of springs -Charles Allen Dinsmore, Atonement in Literature and Life

Light within all light Soul behind all souls At the break of dawn At the coming of day We wait and watch.   Your Light with the morning light Your Soul with the human soul Your presence becoming to us from the heart of life.   In the dawning of this day Let us know…