Being Safe Places for Others · Dec 28, 08:23 AM
When we are free from the need to judge or condemn, we can become safe places for people to meet in vulnerability and take down the walls that separate them. Being deeply rooted in the love of God, we cannot help but invite people to love one another. When people realise that we have no hidden agendas or unspoken intentions, that we are not trying to gain any profit for ourselves, and that our only desire is for peace and reconciliation, they may find the inner freedom and courage to leave their guns at the door and enter into conversation with their enemies.
Mother Teresa - daily devotional · Sep 28, 07:56 AM
September 28, 2009
“I can understand the greatness of God but I cannot understand his humility. It becomes so clear in him being in love with each one of us separately and completely. It is as if there is one but me in the world. He loves me so much. Each one of us can say this with great conviction.” ~ Mother Teresa, “Thirsting for God” 2000: p. 145.
Quotes from "The Shack" · Aug 24, 08:37 PM
Mack, talking about changing the world:
“I don’t know how to change it all”
Jesus, sitting by the lake:
“No one is asking you to!” Jesus said tenderly. “that is Sarayu’s (The Holy Spirit) task and she knows how to do it without brutalizing anyone. This whole thing is a process, not an event. All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share for you. It’s not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda” (p. 181).
Deep roots are not reached by the frost · Jun 21, 06:50 AM
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Twenty years from now... · Jun 9, 01:58 PM
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Attributed to Mark Twain
A Future Not Our Own · May 20, 09:47 AM
It helps, now and then, to step back
And take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
It is beyond our vision.
"I can't do this Sam." · May 13, 06:11 PM
“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
