Pentecost - Dr. Scott Alexander - #WeeklyScriptureReflections

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Something to Pond-er!

 

Live with intention.

Walk to the edge.

Listen hard.

 

 

Practice wellness.

Play with abandon.

Laugh.

Choose with no regret.

Continue to learn.

Appreciate your friends.

 

Do what you love.

Live as if this is all there is.

    

-mary anne radmacher

 I took these pictures of a frog in our back pond at the motherhouse.  I believe this frog was eager to have its picture taken.  I find frogs interesting creatures. They remind me of how transformation is truly a life cycle. sjh

Memorial Day Memory . . .

 

Pentecost Prayer . . .

 

Photo by Doris Klein, CSA

Touch Me with Truth that Burns Like Fire

Lord, send the gift of your Spirit

to fill this place and myself

and the world.

 

Touch me with truth that burns like fire,

with beauty that moves me like the wind;

and set me free, Lord,

free to forgive myself and others;

free to love and laugh and sing;

free to lay aside my burden of security;

free to join the battle for justice and peace;

free to see and listen and wonder again

at the gracious mystery of things and persons;

 

free to be, to give, to receive,

to rejoice as a child of your Spirit.

 

And, Lord,

teach me how to dance,

to turn around

and come down where I want to be,

in the arms and heart of your people

and in you,

that I may praise and enjoy you forever.

Author: Ted Loder

From: Guerrillas of Grace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come, Holy Spirit . . .

 

Come, Holy Spirit ~

Replace the tension within me with a holy relaxation,

Replace the turbulence within me with a sacred calm,

Replace the anxiety within me with a quiet confidence,

Replace the fear within me with a strong faith,

Replace the bitterness within me with the sweetness of grace,

Replace the darkness within me with a gentle light,

Replace the coldness within me with a loving warmth,

Replace the night within me with Your day,

Replace the winter within me with Your spring,

Straighten my crookedness, fill my emptiness,

Dull the edge of my pride, sharpen the edge of my humility,

Light the fires of my love, quench within me the flames of envy,

Let me see myself as You see me, that I may see You as You have promised ~

And be fortunate according to Your word, “Blessed are the pure of heart,

for they shall see God.”                                                                                                      

(Anonymous)

Celebrating Spirit!

 

Photo by Doris Klein, CSA

Blessing That Undoes Us

On the day you are wearing

your certainty like a cloak

and your sureness goes before you

like a shield or like a sword,

 

may the sound of God’s name

spill from your lips as you have never

heard it before.

 

May your knowing be undone.

May mystery confound your

understanding.

 

May the Divine rain down

in strange syllables

yet with an ancient familiarity,

a knowing borne in the blood,

the ear, the tongue,

bringing the clarity that comes

not in stone

or in steel

but in fire, in flame.

 

May there come one searing word –

enough to bare you to the bone,

enough to set your heart ablaze,

enough to make you

whole again.

By Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace

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