Recent challenges and opportunities remind me how significant family & community, and prayer & exercise are to my overall well-being. Keeping focus on that which is foundational provides me clarity throughout times of uncertainty. At home and with work, we’re all eager for the summer season on the horizon. It’s been quite a stretch!
Enjoy these reflections for perspective on your day. Blessings on your week ahead!
Prayer of Gratitude
Eternal God, thank you for this day. As we gather together to do the work before us, thank you for your presence and the guidance of your Spirit. Everything we see, let it be through your eyes. Everything we do, let it be in your ways. Everything we seek, let us find it in your love.
Toward a Second Spring
God is always trying to lead his people toward a newer land of the Spirit, a new consciousness. It is a movement within and yet outside of history, its destination a world hidden yet somehow visible. The day-by-day world that people seek to escape – the uncreative actions, the mere “contacts” of every day – is both a scenario for salvation and the place people have to leave if they are to be saved. Here are superficial and sterile minds, men and women of pride and arrogance, hatred and prejudice, who turn from the forgotten and lonely, the sick and hungry, who wield the kind of power that generates chaos and fear. If this kind of place is hostile to God, God is not hostile to it in return. The object of God’s salvation is the world, and the mission of the Son is to bring about a new exodus. Jesus comes into this place of hostility, but he is not under its power. He leads people forth toward a new spring, a second spring of the human spirit.
- From A Time for Salvation: Reflections on a Redeemed Universe, Louis Savary, S.J.
Keeping the Faith 