“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

May we at length fall asleep peacefully in you and wake up in your likeness; for your tender mercies’ sake.

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive…”

Your faith is invited to use more music, kisses, life, champagne and joy; so that religious words and actions are used in the spirit of love and peace they were intended, Behold your on. Behold, your mother.

“People come to church to daydream about God…”

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” Audre Lorde

Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy upon us.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach…” Henry David Thoreau

“so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens” William Carlos Williams

When you see something beautiful speak on it