May 2011
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Live on in my love.
– John 15:9
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On Christmas Eve I went to St. Patrick’s Cathedral… It had dawned on me...
– — Bono
[via St Paul Inside the Walls]
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My Abba will be glorified if you bear much fruit and thus prove to be my...
– John 15:8
Lectio, 25 May 2011
Not for MY glory, but for YOURS, O God.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you;
but the peace I give you is not...
– John 14:27
Lectio, 24 May 2011
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…the Paraclete (or Advocate), the Holy Spirit… will instruct you in...
– John 14:26
Lectio, 23 May 2011
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Forever I will sing the wonders of your love, God, proclaiming your faithfulness...
– Psalm 89:1
Lectio, 19 May 2011
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I have come as light into the world, so that whoever believes in me need not...
– John 12:46
Lectio, 18 May 2011
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No one will ever snatch them from my hand. Abba God, who gave them to me, is...
– John 10:28-30
Lectio, 17 May 2011
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And who am I to stand in God’s way?
– Acts 11:17
Lectio, 16 May 2011
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What do you need to breathe in today?
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And it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith — and even that...
– Ephesians 2:8,9
Lectio, 13 May 2011 - in memory of my Uncle Ken.
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… the eunuch said, “Look, there is some water right there. Is there...
– Acts 8:36 Lectio, 12 May 2011
The eunuch saw water and realized an opportunity - he could be baptized right away. He didn’t wait until the circumstances and details were all lined up and perfect; he just did it. What if we did just that with the things we are called to do?
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I am the bread of life.
– John 6:48
Lectio, 10 May 2011
May I honor the phenomenal power of creation today and always.
– Tiffany Cole - Twitter: @TiaLucia (via chalicelight)
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Then the travelers recounted what had happened on the road, and how they had...
– Luke 24:39
Lectio, 8 May 2011
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‘There’s a small boy here with five barley loaves and two dried...
– John 6:10
Lectio, 6 May 2011
Sometimes I think I don’t have enough resources to do what needs to be done… I get anxious and concerned… but I think this passage has a lesson for me - maybe when I’m freaking out about something, I should just sit down, chill, and let Jesus...
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For the one who God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit...
– John 3:34
Lectio, 5 May 2011
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…people who live by truth come out into the light,
so that it may be...
– John 3:21
Lectio, 4 May 2011
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Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and still you don’t know me?
– John 14:9
Lectio, 3 May 2011 - Feast of St. Philip and St. James
For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death.
But...
– This is bin Laden’s lamentable victory: He has changed America’s psyche from one that saw violence as a regrettable-if-sometimes-necessary act into one that finds orgasmic euphoria in news of bloodshed. In other words, he’s helped drag us down into his sick nihilism by making us like too many other...
As they prayed, the house where they were assembled was shaken, they were all...
– Acts 4:31
Lectio, 2 May 2011
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like...
– Whitney M. Young, Jr. (U.S. Civil Rights Leader, educator, Unitarian Universalist)
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Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
John...
– Lectio, 1 May 2011
Imagine if whenever you where with someone you offered them peace… what would that mean to you? what would it mean to them? sanctuary? comfort? love?