Holy Spirit,

we approach this moment with hope

that you might move in our lives,

bringing what is long dead to life,

and bringing what is dormant to bloom.

We pray this, trusting you.

Amen.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ― René Descartes

In our end is our beginning;

It is holy to gather.

It is holy to sing.

It is holy to be generous, to throw our coats on the road.

It is holy to celebrate justice when we see it.

It is holy to shout, “Hosanna!”

and in response we say,

we are here.

It is holy to remember.

It is holy to gather.

It is holy to sing.

Here and now, let us do all of these things.

"Instructions for living a life.

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the  universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." — Henry David Thoreau

“God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.”  ― Thomas Keating

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice… to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? —Isaiah 58:6