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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…

“Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always.” ~Willa Cather

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger — these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to…