Teach us

Teach us to welcome others as you welcomed us, to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to be deterred by neither rule nor law in showing your love, compassion, and grace to every single person we meet. Teach us to love, Lord. Amen.

~from Soujourner's Verse and Voice email ~

All this hurrying soon will be over.
Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Reconciliation

Reconciliation begins not first with others but with ourselves: by allowing Jesus to clean us -- to forgive us, to love us.

~Mother Teresa~

Those who love you.....

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

~African saying~

Listening

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

~Rachel Naomi Remen~

Misery

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~Agatha Christie~

Mistakes

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl S. Buck