Daily Reflection

Today's Reflection: October 9

Woman with child

There are seven billion story-filled people in the world:

all of us talkers, all of us listeners.

 

We live in a breadth of conditions almost unimaginable to each other.

Yet if we can find a common language in which to communicate,

we can find the commonality in who we are.

 

Embedded in the narrative of our lives are common human values,

impulses, and longings…

Christina Baldwin

Absolutely Clear
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Water
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“What is the vitality and necessity of clean water? Ask the man who is ill, who is lifting his lips to the cup. Ask the faucet.”   - Mary Oliver,…
Love
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There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. Charles Morgan
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Radiate Love
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Relearning to Pray
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All my life has been a relearning to pray-- a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and vain repetition "Me, Lord, me," instead of watching attentively for the light that…
Breath is Life
September 28
God is dynamically present in every breath and heartbeat.  In each breath we draw, the Spirit gives life.  Learning to reclaim the deep, nourishing breaths of infancy is part of…
Life
September 27
Life is what happens as God breathes in and out.   from The Miracle by Michael Gurion
Be For
September 26
I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God, who loves us and who wants…
Power of Affirmation
September 24
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.   Muhammad Ali

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