"There
are, after all, far too many pleasures available to be able to sample them all:
too many wild and intriguing places to ever visit, people to meet, birds to
watch, symphonies to hear, and so on. The riches embarrass our poor ability to
enjoy them." –Robert Michael Pyle Wintergreen:
Listening to the Land’s Heart
"What will you do in the mundane days of
faithfulness?" –Martin Luther
"Don’t
limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
~
Rabbinical saying
“Holiness abounds, should we choose to look for it. The whisper and drumbeat of God’s Spirit are all around us, should we choose to listen for them. The building blocks of the most common meal—the bread and the wine—are reminders to us: “He’s here! God is here, and he’s good.” Every time we eat, every time we gather, every time the table is filled: He’s here. He’s here, and he is good.” – Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine
"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards."
– Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine
"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."
-Frederick Buechner
"No, no, there is no going back.
Less and
less you are
that
possibility you were.
More and
more you have become
those
lives and deaths
that
have belonged to you.
You have
become a sort of grave
containing
much that was
and is no
more in time, beloved
then,
now, and always.
And so
you have become a sort of tree
standing
over the grave.
Now more
than ever you can be
generous
toward each day
that
comes, young, to disappear
forever,
and yet remain
unaging
in the mind.
Every
day you have less reason
not to
give yourself away."
-Wendell
Berry The Sabbath Poems
"Under the warmth
of the summer sun
the world awakes and
blossoms
into every imaginable
color..."
one of the biggest highlights of the summer pictured above at Snow Lake
"May the whisper
of the Father
be the one that wakens you;
the open hand
of the Son
be the one that raises you;
the prompting
of the Spirit
be the one that sends you,
this morning
and all mornings,
and leads you safely home."
I pray that your
hearts will be flooded with light…. Ephesians 1:18 (New Living Translation)
25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original. Galatians 5:25-26 The Message
So do not worry about tomorrow. Let tomorrow worry about itself. Living faithfully is a large enough task for today. Matthew 6:34 (The Voice translation)
