…God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them. Through the act of creation, God manifested the eternally outflowing Divine Presence into the physical and material world. Ordinary matter is the hiding place for Spirit, and thus the very Body of God. - Richard Rohr.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
"Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers."
-Nelson Mandela
We congratulate the Toronto Raptors on an inspiring, and uniting win. We The North.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
-David Attenborough
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Things good in themselves…perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya Stark, The Lycian Shore (1956)
Weekly Pause and Ponder
All creatures bear the image of the image of the Cosmic Christ though many do not know it. Humans, however, bear both image and likeness of the Cosmic Christ for they are capable of the creativity that is unique to God.