A Beautiful Reminder

During a recent EfM opening worship, a new friend reminded us of these most important things to say to our friends and those we love, while we still can.  I offer them to you for your consideration.

1. You are one of the most important people in my life and I’m grateful for you every day.
2. Thank you for always being there for me, through everything.
3. I hope you know how much I appreciate everything you do and the person you are.
4. You have helped shaped who I am, and I’m a better person because of our friendship.
5. I’m so lucky to have someone who truly understands me and accepts me for who I am.
6. If I don’t say enough, just know that I love you and cherish our friendship.
7. I am here for you, always, no matter what you need or when.
8. Thank you for the laughter and the joy you bring into my life.
9. I am proud of everything of you have accomplished, and I admire you.
10. I appreciate that you are always honest with me, even when it is hard to hear.
11. If there is ever anything you need to talk about, I will always listen.
12. I want you to know that you have made a difference in my life, and that means so much to me.
13. Life is unpredictable, but I know that our friendship is something I can count on.
14. Thank you for being you – just as you are, you are amazing.

 

A Monastery of the Heart

There is no such thing as a private life in a globalized world. For a monastery, there never was. The monastery is that model of a place where the doors are always open, the environment is always gentle, the rhythm is always ordered and God is always the center of life. A monastery is to be a light to remind all of us how beautiful the world would be if we shaped our own lives out of the same values. 

Dear Lord, build in us a monastery of the heart that we mind server you here in our community.  Amen

Freshen our Eyes

Sister Joan reminds us today that we can see all His many gifts if we but freshen our eyes to His world.  How do we do this? We are called to one another by love and respect.  We are to love and care for one another.

Benedictine spirituality reverences the other based on the spark of the divine that is in all of us.  This is our gift to this time and place alive with distinctions and so chooses to not care for the scarred and bleeding--to a world that simply does not see the sacred in all of His children.