Liturgies

REFLECTION

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it. … What I want is so simple: … Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. … Right now I’m living in that hope, running down its hallways and touching the walls on both sides. I can’t tell you how good it feels.

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams. Quoted in Inward/Outward January 9, 2008.

REFLECTION

I wish I could show you
when you are lonely
or in darkness
the astonishing light
of your being.

My Brilliant Image,” I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky, pp 13-15.

REFLECTION

O God, I am torn.
Do I rant or praise?
This world is so magnificent,
so flawed,
and I cannot divert
my gaze,
or heart,
from either.

Ted Loder, So magnificent…so flawed from Wrestling the Light: Ache and Awe in the Human-Divine Struggle, pg. 10

 We are here to celebrate and affirm, as family, dear friends, and community, the relationship that Carole and Kate have created over the past 27 years and intend to continue to build as long as they are both alive.

REFLECTION

When the fullness of time comes, a sacred voice at the heart of us cries out, shaking the old foundation. It draws us into a turbulence that forces us to confront our deepest issues. It’s as if some inner divine grace seeks out our growth and becoming and will plunge us, if need be, into a cauldron that seethes with questions and voices we would just as soon not hear.

Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits, p. 10