At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Pause and Ponder
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish. - Oscar Romero
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Thanksgiving is a time to look beneath our external lives for the unwavering love, the ceaseless peace, and the enduring strength that lie in the deep waters of our soul. The more we trust the “unknowable depths” of our existence, the more the power of gratitude becomes a song we daily sing. With what do you struggle today? What might lie beneath the struggle for which you can give thanks?
Excerpt from The Circle of Life by Joyce Rupp & Macrina Wiederkehr
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.
Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.
Thankfulness may consist merely of words.
Gratitude is shown in acts.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Weekly Pause & Ponder
In order to “opt” for the poor, one must be “non-poor.” In other words, one must be in a privileged position to choose a stance of solidarity; after all, one cannot “opt” for what one already is. In this sense, the option for the poor, as originally understood, is an opportunity for engaged compassion of the economically and socially privileged with the economically and socially marginalized.
For Earth’s Sake: Toward A Compassionate Ecology by Stephen Bede Scharper, p. 156.