If you get, give. If you learn, teach.
04024 – Getting & Learning
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03201 – Education & Knowledge
Education is not merely the accumulation of knowledge. Education gives us the tools to access knowledge.
02923 – “Watching” Church
Staying home to "watch church" is like staying home from a friend's wedding to watch the ceremony virtually. And keeping your wedding gift with you. Your presence and solidarity and love and hugs and eye contact and singing are needed. It's not just about passively...
02918 – Love Comes from God
May God gently place God's own heart right behind yours, so that the love you give in this work can come through you, but doesn't have to come from you.
02849 – Give & Take
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
02532 – Theirs, Not Ours
When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours. More than performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice.
02260 – God’s Divine Love
God does not give Divine Love except to people who really want this, choose this, and say "yes" to this. Divine Love is so pure that it never manipulates, shames, or forces itself on anyone. Love waits to be invited and desired, and only then rushes in.
02149 – Grief & Gratitude: Hand in Hand
The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That's how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I'll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only...
02075 – Knowing What Love Means
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
01968 – Your Honest Self
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.