“To pray and actually mean “Thy Kingdom come,” we must also be able to say “my kingdoms go.” – Fr. Richard Rohr
Category: Prayer
“Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.” —Thomas Merton
“If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” – Nikki Giovanni
“We pray to you, O God, for strength, determination and will power, to do instead of just pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
– Adapted from “We Cannot Merely Pray” by Rabbi Jack Riemer
“We see these natural tragedies, which are the Earth’s response to our maltreatment. […] It is we who have ruined the work of God.” – Pope Francis
Our prayers go out for all affected by the brutal wildfires in California and Oregon. Stacy Harwood, our Volunteer Coordinator has family near the Oregon fires. Friday was spent following up on Fire Level Alerts and a lot of prayer. Please keep her family and all of the others in prayer.
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