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Gratitude Daily Devotional Nov 21: Grateful for Mentors

GRATITUDE Daily Devotional Cultivate gratitude each day this month. Day 21: Grateful for Mentors Scripture: Proverbs 27:17 — As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Meditation: Mr Rogers said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. […]

Meditation on seeing and blindness: themes from Mark. To what are you called to bear witness? When and how have you been blind in your life, and what or who opened your eyes?

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet. — Olivia Thirlby Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind … — William Shakespeare Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different […]

Reflections from Book of Job, one of the wisdom texts we’re studying together

We must cultivate our garden. — Voltaire, Candide The most famous line in Voltaire’s ”Candide” is the final one: ”We must cultivate our garden.” That is Candide’s response to the philosopher Pangloss, who tries again and again to prove that we live in the best of all possible worlds, no matter what disasters befall us. […]

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