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Themes of listening for a holy call filled with passion and purpose from Book of 1 Samuel.

By jacksonnhccPosted on May 31, 2018Posted in Home, Weekly MeditationsTagged 1 Samuel, Active Listening, Annie Dillard, Beyonce, call, calling, Colin Powell, Dorothy Sayers, Ellen Davis, Émile Zola, Ernest Hemingway, Fran Lebowitz, God, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jane Goodall, Jordan Raynor, Krista Tippett, Leo Buscaglia, Lord, Madeleine L'Engle, Marie Howe, mindtools.com, Mothere Teresa, Oprah Winfrey, Oswald Chambers, passion, prophet, Purpose, Relevant Magazine, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sally Sheffield, Sarah Dessen, Simon Sinek, Simone Weil, skillsyouneed.com, Stephen Covey, Stephen King, Swiftly Tilting Planet, Vincent van Gogh, Zeno of Citium

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. ― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet

The Meadow (excerpt) — Marie Howe

Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words
that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling
(excerpt)— Jordan Raynor, Relevant Magazine

… entrepreneurs and creatives … tended to ask three excellent questions when discerning God’s calling on their lives:

What am I passionate about?
What gifts has God given me?
Where do I have the greatest opportunity to love others?

It’s these three questions which will help you discern where God has called you to expend your energies …

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Reflections on ‘Love Written on our Heart’ from Jeremiah plus St Patrick

By jacksonnhccPosted on March 16, 2018Posted in Home, Weekly MeditationsTagged Anne Lamott, covenant, Diana Butler Bass, God, jeremiah, joy harjo, law written on our heart, lent, Leonard Cohen, Richard Rohr, rumi, St Patrick, Thich Nhat Hahn, Toni Morrison

Eagle Poem — Joy Harjo (excerpt)
… Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning … Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.

Of Love Written On (and In) Our Hearts

I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — attributed to Rumi

In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh … You got to love it, you! … love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air … hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.— Toni Morrison, Beloved

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