“God is always there, if you feel
wounded. He kneels over the earth like a divine medic, and His love thaws the
holy in us.” -Teresa of Avila
“God
does not give up on anyone, for God loved us from all eternity, God loves us
now and God will always love us, all of us good and bad, forever and ever.
[God’s] love will not let us go, for God’s love for us, all of us, good and
bad, is unchanging, is unchangeable. Someone has said there is nothing I can do
to make God love me more, for God loves me perfectly already. And wonderfully,
there is nothing I can do to make God love me less." -Desmond
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
“When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with
concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not
directed toward the gift but toward the One who gives it. Ultimately, it is not
a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in
the giver of all good things. . . . Hope is based on the premise that the other
gives only what is good. Hope includes an openness by which you wait for the
promise to come through, even though you never know when, where, or how this
might happen…” - Henri Nouwen
“Watch
not the bitter earth, but the starry sky….” -Andrew
Greeley
(or snowy sky!)
(when there are no in person school events because they are all online,
make-your-own-winter-ball-2021)
I
cannot tell you
how the light comes,
but that it does.
That it will.
- Jan Richardson, “How The Light Comes”
I
stumbled onto the following words this morning and thought they would encourage you as
they did me. Opening the curtains in the morning once it is light, especially
this time of year, often feels like a declaration of hope against the dark that
I need everyday. These are words to rest as we remember we don’t have to have
all the answers or how to make it all better. We just make a way for God’s
light of day to shine on us and sustain us. -Tracey Cravy
“ When
you open the curtains in the morning, do you have to make the sun shine into
your room? No, you open the curtains and the sun shines in. That's what it's
like with God's peace and the hope that He brings. It will flow into our
hearts, if we let it. Are you worried? Are you anxious? Is anything troubling
you today? Don't try to work it out all by yourself. Let God's peace flow in –
like sunshine into a dark room.” -Sally Lloyd Jones
