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“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit.”  Jesus in John 12:24 “We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years.  People ought to start dead and they would be honest so…

“I tell you the truth, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain ‘move’, and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.”  Jesus “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone upon the ocean and create a ripple.”  Mother Teresa Small…

“I proclaim to you that which is of most importance . . .” St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. “Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.” Henri Nouwen “What’s in your wallet?”  A familiar question from the Capitol…

“Whoever desires to save their life will lose it.”  Jesus in The Gospel According to Matthew “Do you hear the love that’s falling from my eyes?” Lucinda Drayton That question.  The one that serves as the title for this meditation.  That question.  It’s a hard one.  It is not only difficult, it is discomforting.  That…

“Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.” John 13:23 How do you relax? Name three ways. How do you relax into God?  Name one way. While one may, or may not, be good at relaxing, I’m pretty certain that each of us find it a struggle to relax…

“Of His faithfulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.”  John 1:16 “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”  Anne Lamott Grace has been foremost in my mind, and my life experience lately. How about…

“The light shines in the darkness.” John 1 “How far the little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Shakespeare How do you see the light? How do you be the light? The light is changing. The sun is taking a different course. It is now dark when I…

“This is my beloved Son, listen to Him.”  Matthew 17:5 “Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” Malcolm Muggeridge Did you hear the inner voice of love this past week? If so, when? Where?  What did it sound like?…

“The Voice of One calling in the wilderness.”  Isaiah 40:3 “What is this whisper I hear in the stillness, this voice I hear calling out to my heart when the cares of this world drop away?”[i] “Only by attending constantly to the inner voice can you be converted to a new life of freedom and…

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the offspring of her womb?  Surely they may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands, you are ever before me.”   Isaiah 49:15-16 “That mysterious diffused light that calls us onward seems…