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The Habit of Serving Oct 28 Spiritual life Class


Jesus gives us "real eyes" to "realize" where the "Real lies."
Richard Rohr, Jesus' Plan for a New World

Barbara Brown Taylor
“The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become
living words in the world for God’s sake.”

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. Christina Baldwin

Suzanne Farnham, et al
It is in the here and now, the ordinary situation of normal life, that we find God. A true call is likely to be modest in scope. If we try to save the world, we become immobilized.
There are stories from our lives through which God is trying to tell us things we need to know. We need to identify those stories, tell them, and try to sort them out…. By observing what we do, we can discover what we believe and value. Our past actions, our previous choices, the roads we have taken - all hold clues to who we are becoming. There is a connection between our temperaments and talents, and our call. We are called to work with the gifts we have been given.
Source: Listening Hearts (from inward/outward)

People say, "What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time. We can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will
vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and the fishes.
- Dorothy Day
from Loaves and Fishes


Anne Lamott talks about the most important thing that she ever did in her life. She is sitting and is worried about the world and about what we are doing. She said, “And then I did the single most important thing one can do to save the world: I got up off my butt."
Grace (Eventually)

KEEPER OF OUR DAYS, only we can risk the unknown and not cling to the familiar, we will learn of your grace and strength.Amen.
- Richard Morgan Settling In: My First Year in a Retirement Community
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