God will bring people and events into our lives and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of [God’s] life in us.
- Thomas Keating
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
- Barack Obama
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Social and political action that effects a real, material and transformative difference in the world is not only a means of furthering God's justice. It is a sharing in God's creative action, drawing the world into greater unity, and thus into the unifying life of the Godhead, in a "communion through action."
Ilia Delio. From Teilhard to Omega: Co-creating an Unfinished Universe, p. 125.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Your life is not about you; you are about Life. You are an instance of a universal, eternal pattern. The One Life that many call “God” is living itself in you, through you, and as you! You have never been separate from God except in your mind. Can you imagine that?!
Richard Rohr. Meditations@cac.org . Jan. 11, 2018.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Accepting your life means being present in it, moment by moment. Changing your life begins with accepting your life as it is. When you do that, you are in a position to change. You know where you are, in addition to where you want to go.
The Heart of the Soul by Gary Sukar and Linda Francis, p.279