giving

Your energies, your gifts, your vision.

August 11, 2018

No one ever died saying, I’m so glad for the self-centered, self-serving, and self-protective life I lived.” Offer yourself to the world–your energies your gifts, your visions, your spirit–with open-hearted generosity. 

-Parker Palmer

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“Life has set the stamp of individuality on your soul. You are different from any other person who ever lived. You are an individualized center in the Consciousness of God. You are an individualized activity in the Action of God. You are you, and you are eternal. Begin to live today as the immortal being you are and all thought of death, all fear of change will slip from you. You will step out of the tomb of uncertainty into the light of eternal day.”                                                            

-Ernest Holmes

We are here to live out loud. -Emile Zola

“Imagine if birds only sang when heard. If musicians only played when approved of. If poets only spoke when understood.” 

“Remove your human hesitation. As you inhale, feel what rises in you. At the top of your breath, blink the mind shut like an eye. As you exhale, let the feeling sound from you, no matter how softly.

-Mark Nepo

“…those giving more.”

March 21, 2018

“With all the abundance we are receiving, there coms a time when we are called to give it away. It’s like breathing—you can only inhale for along.

Giving creates the space for receiving.

And giving creates within us a sense that we are doing our part. It says we are one with the whole.

We are all here to serve each other.

The happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. [H. Jackson Brown Jr.]

Give from the abundance and courage of your heart.”

And be creative.

-Science of Mind

‘Lovingly poured out.’

December 11, 2017

In sum, we are not called to love God or the world. Rather, we are called to love God in the world. We love God by loving the world. We love God through and with the world. But this turns out to be a kenotic, a sacrificial love. —Sallie McFague [1]

‘A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.’

-Mother Teresa

“The key to kenosis is knowing that your life is not about you. Everything—each breath, heartbeat, morsel of food, seeming success—is gift. We are entirely dependent upon God’s loving us into being, and keeping us in being, interdependent with all other beings. Your life does not really belong to you, as countercultural and difficult as that is to understand in our individualistic, competitive, consumer culture. As the Trinity reveals, life and love are poured into us that we may pour into others.”

-Richard Rohr

 

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Sallie McFague, Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint (Fortress Press: 2013), 9, 22.