There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
Joan Chittister. www.azquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Love [people] even in [their] sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. www.meditations@cac.org
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Whatever affects one directly, affects all directly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. www.christiananimalethics.com/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Craig D. Loundsbrough. www.wiseoldsayings.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Lord, you make all things new
You bring hope alive in our hearts
And cause our Spirit to be born again.
Thank you for this new year
For all the potential it holds
Come and kindle in us a mighty flame
So that in our time, many will see the wonders of God
And live forever to praise your glorious name.Amen