A Prayer by Bishop Woodie White:
And now, may the Lord torment you, may the Lord keep before you the faces of the hungry and the lonely and the rejected and the despised, and may the Lord give you courage and strength and compassion to make ours a better world, to make your community a better community, to make your church a better church. And may you do your very best to make it so. And after you have done your best, may the Lord grant you peace.

From Inward/outward

I pass this on from one of my favorite devotional sites

By Nancy Compton Williams
I must learn
the calligraphy
of egret stance,
poised on a word
that lies beneath
the weaving current,
steady, still.

Source: Christianity and Literature

Original Unity

"The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are."
- Thomas Merton

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The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow - Finding Commonality Despite Our Differences - Day1.org

The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow - Finding Commonality Despite Our Differences - Day1.org

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New Dimensions of Love
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. There is still a voice crying out in terms that echo across the generations, saying: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you, that you may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven. This love might well be the salvation of our civilization.

Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World (Speech given to the First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change in Dec 1956)

In these black and white days of snow
I think the cardinal is red
just for days as this,
just because my eyes and soul enjoy it,
red outstanding
in the black and white,
one of the things God and I agree on.