Come Find The Quiet Center (2/20/15)

“A life without a quiet center easily becomes destructive.”
-Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Music for your prayer and reflection

“In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
-Isaiah 39:15

“Slowly is like holy.”
-Marv and Nancy Hiles

Let your heart take courage.

Teach Us To Number Our Days (11/7)

We have the amazing gift of a new day of life

15 years = 5,475 days
5 years = 1,825 days
1 year = 365 days

The precious gift of life. Life is a depreciating asset. All of us have more money than time. Think about it. We have a last Will & Testament directing how our estate and money are to be distributed – after we die. We may give a lot of time and attention to these financial matters. Do we give as much attention to the use of our time, how we are living our life now? This text comes to mind: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” [Psalm 90:12]

This questions from the poet, Mary Oliver, points us to this wisdom: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Let us break away from the chaos and the clutter, the amusements and the distractions of life, and come to that center point where life is sacred and ever so precious. Listen to your life. Thoreau wrote: “Nothing could be worse than to come to the end of life and discover that I had not lived.” Something to ponder in our hearts. Let us be good stewards of our finitude!

Music for morning prayer and reflection – Make today count.

“Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude, we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.”
-Henri J. M. Nouwen

With you now in awakening to who we are in God and to who God is in us.

We are all sparks of the Divine flame
Blessed Be
Compassionate Be
Boldly Be