Daily Reflection

Today's Reflection: November 21

zen garden raker

Silence transforms one from a

seeker of the Divine into a

vessel of the Divine.

Geoffrey W. Dennis

November 20
I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover…
November 19
Prayer is an attitude toward life that sees everything as ultimately sacred, everything as potentially life-changing, everything as revelatory of life’s meaning.   It is our link between dailiness and…
November 18
When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each moment, as a newborn baby. Michelle McDonald
November 17
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path…
November 16
Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, within the shroud a butterfly, till, taught by such we see beyond all…
November 15
The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly…
November 14
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets…
November 13
Lord, give us the ambition to do as much as we can, as well as we can, as long as we can, and the resolve not to despair over the…
November 12
Please remember – it is what you are that heals best, not what you know. Carl Jung
November 11
God of every human being, You never force our heart. You place your peaceful light Within each one of us,   With that light shining on them, Our failures and…
November 10
All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau
November 9
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair.…
November 8
I live, but my life is that of Christ's. And in possessing me, my poor Lord possesses nothing. And I, in possessing Him, possess everything. St. Anthony Mary Claret
November 7
It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies and use of force, hatred, and oppression.  He must at all times be a witness to and defender…
November 6
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, Prison Reformer