A Flight of Fancy for Friday - Friday in Easter Week.

Mt Snowden, Wales. 2019

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“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

Peace, justice and blessings to all.

 

A Thought for Thursday - The Thursday of Easter Week

Approaching Victoria, BC, Canada. 2009

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In this quote from 'Spiritual Defiance' Robin Myers uses the term 'fleeing churches' appropriately.

  

People are not fleeing churches today because they have lost their deep hunger for a spiritual connection and participation in authentic spiritual communities. Rather, they are fleeing because so many churches now seem bereft of the very spirit that birthed them in the first place. If clergy want to find their people, they might try looking in coffee shops, in homeless shelters, among the young who have pitched their tents in parks to dramatize economic injustice. While we shop, salute, and worship celebrities and athletes, the world is falling apart. What we need today is a move to Occupy Religion.”
― Robin Meyers, Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Peace, justice and blessings to all.

 

A Word for Wednesday - Wednesday of Easter Week 2024

 

Near Canterbury, UK, 2019

  

“When we are uncaring, when we lack compassion, when we are unforgiving, we will always pay the price for it. It is not, however, we alone who suffer. Our whole community suffers, and ultimately our whole world suffers. We are made to exist in a delicate network of interdependence. We are sisters and brothers, whether we like it or not. To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity. And those who shred the web of interconnectedness cannot escape the consequences of their actions.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World