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The only good thing about being driven and distracted and dissatisfied is that it makes you really thirsty.
“[I]t is one thing to know the chemical formula of water and another to savor it by a spring on a summer’s day.” Fr. Bernardo Olivera
“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.” John 7:37
Sometimes life is dry and thirsty, and then the spring rain comes.
“O thou lord of life, send / my roots rain.” Gerard Manley Hopkins
“And He will come to us like rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:3
There are a lot of things you could collect today. Some are better than others.
“I keep an inventory of wonders. . . .” Wendell Berry
“Choose life. . . .” Deuteronomy 30:19
If the universe is a very little thing, the very big thing you’ve been worrying about must be a very little thing, too.
“He who holds the universe in His hand as if it were a very little thing – He is your shepherd. . . .” Hannah Whitall Smith
“The Lord is my shepherd.” Psalm 23:1
When somebody you love is walking through the darkest valley, maybe God is gently coaxing your timid heart (and hers) to trust.
“[W]hen I walk through the darkest valley, . . . You are close beside me . . . [and] comfort me.” Psalm 23:4
“You gently coax our timid hearts to trust. . . .” Thomas Keating
I’m finding that how-old-are-you has a longer answer every year: two and twelve and twenty-seven and thirty-two and forty-one and fifty-six and of course sixty-three.
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” Madeleine L’Engle
“[G]race upon grace.” John 1:16
