Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
On this All Hallows Eve, who lingers close to you? — Jan Richardson … we give thanks for all those who have come before ushanding on the faith and being used by God for simple acts of love.— Nadia Bolz Weber “Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death?”“When you reach the stars,[…]
Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere. — Hakim Sinai, Sufi poet They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice[…]
View this email in your browser What is a soul? It’s like electricity …we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.— Ray Charles For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.— Judy Garland[…]
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you? ― Rumi We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple[…]
There is no remedy for love but to love more.—Henry David Thoreau The first two of these commandments —love for God and love for our fellow humans —are actualized through mitzvot, a system that shapes idealsinto behavior and is deepened through communal norms.— Joanna Samuels Love God. Love God with everything you are: heart, mind,[…]
