Tag: peace

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On the water

We came back to the lake one evening for some night-time kayaking. There is something about being out on the water…fish jumping, frogs croaking, encircled by the deep darkness of the trees, wrapped in the cloak of darkness, infinitely small under the vastness of the stars. It was what Karla Kincannon calls “a holy moment, an encounter with the Divine that pulsates within the circadian rhythms found in all creation.”

Where have you found a holy moment? How do you build spaces into your regular rhythm to be surprised by the holy?

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Transforming Rest

Amidst all the pressure
to keep going and to keep going,
may you also take time to learn the art of being;
being Loved,
being Held,
being Seen,
being in the Presence
of the One
who calls you
to rest. ~ Morgan Harper Nichols

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Beloved

If you would enter into the wilderness,
do not begin without a blessing.
Do not leave
without hearing
who you are:
Beloved,
named by the One
who has traveled this path before you. ~ Jan Richardson

What are your spaces of “beloved” that allow you to enter the wilderness?

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Mystery

“What is our life on earth, if not discovering, becoming conscious of, penetrating, contemplating, accepting, loving this mystery of God’s, the unique reality which surrounds us, and in which we are immersed like meteorites in space? “In God we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).” ~ Carlo Carretto, Letters from the desert

What are your doorways into God’s mystery?

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Tears

Grief is,…, a powerful form of soul activism. If we refuse or neglect the responsibility for drinking the tears of the world, her losses cease to be registered by the ones meant to be the receptors of that information. ~ Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

What grief activates your soul?

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Positive peace

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail

What peace to you work toward?