Isaiah 43:18–19 (NRSVUE)

Do not remember the former things,  

or consider the things of old.  

I am about to do a new thing;  

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?  

I will make a way in the wilderness  

and rivers in the desert.

I am learning to make room.

Meister Eckhart

To be empty of all things is to be full of God.  

To be full of all things is to be empty of God.

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Psalm 62:8 (NRSVUE)

Trust in him at all times, O people;  

pour out your heart before him;  

God is a refuge for us.

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I am learning to name what is true.

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Julian of Norwich

For I saw no wrath in God,  

nor ever shall.  

For our Lord is God, and God is good,  

and goodness is enough to answer for all.

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Lamentations 3:22–23 (NRSVUE)

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,  

his mercies never come to an end;  

they are new every morning;  

great is your faithfulness.

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I am learning to notice what is here.

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George Herbert

Prayer the Church’s banquet, Angel’s age,  

God’s breath in man returning to his birth,  

The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

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Psalm 131:2 (NRSVUE)

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,  

like a weaned child with its mother;  

my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.

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I am learning to pay attention.

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Simone Weil, *Waiting for God*

The key to a Christian conception of studies is the realization that prayer consists of attention.  

It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable toward God.

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Galatians 6:9 (NRSVUE)

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right,  

for we will reap at harvest time,  

if we do not give up.

I am learning to stay with the work.

Benedict of Nursia

Let us set out on this way with the Gospel for our guide,  

that we may deserve to see him who has called us into his kingdom.

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Luke 19:8–9 (NRSVUE)

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,  

“Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor;  

and if I have defrauded anyone of anything,  

I will pay back four times as much.”  

Then Jesus said to him,  

“Today salvation has come to this house.”

I am learning to turn again.

Julian of Norwich

Our Lord does not say, “You shall not be tempted,  

you shall not be troubled,  

you shall not be distressed,”  

but he says, “You shall not be overcome.”

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Joel 2:12–13 (NRSVUE)

Yet even now, says the LORD,  

return to me with all your heart,  

with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;  

rend your hearts and not your clothing.  

Return to the LORD, your God,  

for he is gracious and merciful,  

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.

I return to what is true.

Augustine of Hippo

Remember, you are dust.  

Yet you are dust breathed upon by God.

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Psalm 103:14 (NRSVUE)

For he knows how we were made;  

he remembers that we are dust.

I am learning to receive my limits.

Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life  

is thank you,  

it will be enough.

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Joshua 3:5 (NRSVUE)

Then Joshua said to the people,  

“Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

I am learning to return.

T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end  

And to make an end is to make a beginning.  

The end is where we start from.

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Psalm 4:8 (NRSVUE)

I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O LORD, make me lie down in safety.

Tomorrow is held.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

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