“You cannot make God love you any less, either—not an ounce less. Do the most terrible thing and God wouldn’t love you less. You cannot change the Divine mind about you! The flow is constant, total, and 100 percent toward your life. God is for you. We can’t diminish God’s love for us. What we can do, however, is learn how to believe it, receive it, trust it, allow it, and celebrate it, accepting Trinity’s whirling invitation to join in the cosmic dance” (Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, May 22, 2019).

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“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” (Rachel Carson).

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“When you can’t go far, you go deep” (David Steindl-Rast).

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“Abundance is not something we acquire.  It is something we tune into” (Wayne Dyer).

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“Just as God cannot be ‘caught’ or ‘comprehended’ in any specific idea, concept, opinion or conviction, he cannot be defined by any specific feeling or emotion either. God cannot be identified with a good affectionate feeling toward our neighbor, or with a sweet emotion of the heart or with ecstasies, movements of the body, or handling of snakes. God is not just our good inclinations, our fervor, our generosity, or our love. All of these experiences of the heart may remind us of God’s presence, but their absence does not prove God’s absence. God is not only  greater than our mind; he is also greater than our heart, and just as we have to avoid the temptation of adapting God to our small concepts we also have to avoid adapting him to our small feelings” (Henri Nouwen in  You are the Beloved). 

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“Gentleness is a cultivated habit of sensitivity, founded on strength—not weakness. It’s a powerful skill sourced from God’s kind of love. An ability, a strain of inner toughness that can weigh anger and reason at the same time. It has the resilience to consider, at the moment, what’s at stake? Is it my inflated ego that’s been frustrated or has justice and fairness actually been violated?” (jonathan@jonathanrbailey.com, May 5, 2019).