Scripps Sundays

  I listened to  Padraig O'Tuama read this favorite poem  of his on a podcast this week. Oh my....  Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.   -David Wagoner  rainy day run to the Arboretum from Friday morning  where we took your senior photos...

May we face our selves, in the wilderness and the world and recognize the forces that drive us, so that they do not always drive us. -Padraig O'Tuama Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community  I mailed you a copy of these this past week so you could underline and mark them up, but I also wanted you to have them here to follow up from our conversation last week.  Enneagram Thoughts Worth Reflecting On The leap of faith always means loving without expecting to be loved in return, giving without wanting to receive, inviting without hoping to be invited, holding without asking to be held. And every time I make a little leap, I catch a glimpse of the One who runs out to me and invites me into his joy, the joy in which I can find not only myself, but also my brothers and sisters. Thus, the disciplines of trust and gratitude reveal the God who searches for me, burning with desire to take away all my resentments and complaints and to let me sit at his side at the heavenly banquet. ...

Prayers below for you from our incredible weekend here in Montgomery, AL. I cannot wait bring you here someday to experience this with you and to keep learning and unlearning together for the sake of reconciliation with God, with ourselves, with each other, in our nation, and in our world....  Deliver us from amnesia God of peace, God of justice, God of freedom, We give you thanks for your cadences of peace justice and freedom,  cadences that have surged through the lives of Martin and Ralph, Rosa and John, Fred and Bryan, Hosea and Jesse and Andy  And all that nameless mask of risktakers who have been obedient to your promises and susceptible to your dreams . Deliver us from amnesia concerning their courage in the face of violence, their peacemaking against hate and their hunger for you in a devouring economy. Deliver us from amnesia,  turn our memory into hope, turn our gratitude into energy, turn our well-being into impatience. That these same cadences of your wil...

 

Hearing you talk last week about feeling stretched thin, I wanted to share with you some quotes of a book by Shauna Niequist that I read a few years ago.... May you find moments that you can anchor yourself in the present (even if it's just 30 seconds in a day!) and that you can delight in the person in front of you.    “[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.” “What kills a soul? Exhaustion, secret keeping, image management.  And what brings a soul back from the dead? Honesty, connection, grace” “Present is living with your feet firmly grounded in reality, pale and uncertain as it may seem. Present is choosing to believe that your own life is worth investing deeply in, instead of waiting for some rare miracle or fairytale. Present means we understand that the here and now is sacred, sacramental, threaded through with...