Sunday Inspiration
Sunday Inspiration: Summer
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screen porch on cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.” -Harper Lee May your summer be filled with happiness, good food, and a thousand colors!
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: From Failure to Happy Novelist
“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Feed the hungry
“What Jesus never said: ‘Feed the hungry only if they have papers.’ ‘Clothe the naked only if they’re from your country.’ ‘Welcome the stranger only if there’s zero risk.’ ‘Help the poor only if it’s convenient.’ ‘Love your neighbor only if they look like you.’” -James Martin, S.J. Thank you, Father Martin. I appreciate your…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: In Memory
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life for something bigger than oneself.” -Joseph Campbell May we remember and honor today and every day all the heroes in our lives, those who have fought bravely for our country and those who have protected and nurtured it with their devotion and sacrifice.
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: What am I looking for?
“If you are looking for verses in the Bible with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to abolish slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for for verses…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Mother’s Day
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Worrying is worthless
“If you are ruminating about the past, or worrying about the future, you will completely miss the experience… The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop ruminating…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Things you live and die for
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be joyful!
“To be joyful in the universe is a brave and reckless act. The courage for joy springs not from the certainty of human experience, but the surprise. Our astonishment at being loved, our bold willingness to love in return — these wonders promise the possibility of joyfulness, no matter how often and how harshly love…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: A single glorious thing
“In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full,…
Read More