Sunday November 6: Jump, children, jump! . . . "… when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness." ~ Ps 17:15b . . . “… to God all are alive.” ~ Luke 20:38 . . . image credit: Rauni Person, Jumpin 4 Joy

“There is a heaven we enter through institutional grace and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing in the lowly puddle.” ~ Mary Oliver, Yellow

"The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is— 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him' (Job 13:15)." ~ Oswald Chambers I must say, I'm inclined to agree with him.

" I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." - Henry Emerson Fosdick

“The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.” —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What an incredible act of love. Forget all the dogma theology, this guy might be closer to Christ without knowing a lick of scripture than most of the online preachers on social media.

"On MY tree you will give up your ego, your life, and your view of the world. From it you will cease to judge the world from above it though it crucifies you, but you will embrace it with forgiveness, mercy, grace and love.

Refreshing short read for a new start to a new day. "The contemplative life is not so much the achievement of enlightenment as learning to live the question—living into spiritual wonder." imagejournal.org/article/someth… #spiritualawakening

“A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects.” -GK Chesterton

It is foolish to think we will enter into heaven without entering into ourselves. — Teresa of Avila, 'The Interior Castle.' Image: from Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof cemetery, Berlin.

The image of fire can be evocative—dangerous, powerful, hypnotizing. What does it reveal about the Divine? Today's meditation features writing from Ilia Delio (Center for Christogenesis) who uses fire to describe God’s presence in her life. #DailyMeditations tinyurl.com/mtf7m86t

“Is the relationship between God and Jesus Christ not unique? Of course it is. But so is yours. The relationship between God and every human being is unique and irreplaceable—in ever-new variations of the Christ theme.” ― David Steindl-Rast

We all possess two faculties, for thinking and for loving. God, who made us thus, is forever unknowable by thinking, but in loving God is completely knowable. -The Cloud of Unknowing

🕊️ Sunday June 30: Meditation . . . “[T]he theological virtue of hope … is not about the future … It is rather trust and acceptance of God’s infinite mercy right now in the present moment. … . . . image credit: Giuliano Cucco, The White Birds

"There is no God behind the back of Jesus Christ for us to fear." -Stephen D. Morrison (on Karl Barth's theology of election)