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Verse of the Day: Quietness and Trust
05-30-2013
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
- Isaiah 32:16-17
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Prayer of the Day: 5/30/13
05-30-2013
Lord, we expect good things from you because you are good and you promise to give to those who ask. Teach us to know not only how to ask but also for what we should ask. May all our asking, seeking, and knocking be to further your kingdom in some way, no matter how small or mundane. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Francis de Sales
05-30-2013
Love the poor and love poverty, for it is by such love that we become truly poor. As the Scripture says, we become like the things we love. If you love the poor you will share their poverty and be poor like them. If you love the poor be often with them. Be glad to see them in your own home and to visit with them in theirs. Be glad to talk to them and be pleased to have them near you in church, on the street, and elsewhere. Be poor in conversing with them and speak to them as their companions do, but be rich in assisting them by sharing some of your more abundant goods with them.
- Francis de Sales
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Verse of the Day: 'Rest for Your Souls'
05-29-2013
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Matthew 11:29
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Prayer of the Day: 5/29/13
05-29-2013
Help us, Lord, to do the thing that is necessary: to tend to the poor, to walk alongside the poor, to find you among the poor, to declare ourselves poor as long as anyone suffers need. May we begin this journey with just one person today. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Robert James Brown
05-29-2013
We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong.
- Robert James Brown
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Prayer of the Day: 5/28/13
05-28-2013
Lord, enable us today to see our neighbor in those whom the world rejects — the guilt-ridden, the foreigner, the unprotected, and the refugee. Open our eyes and make us present to these neighbors both in our various expressions of community and in the wider world. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Paul Hawken
05-28-2013
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
- Paul Hawken
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Verse of the Day: Wisdom from Above
05-28-2013
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
- James 3:17
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Verse of the Day: Blessed Are the Meek
05-24-2013
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- Matthew 5:5
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Voice of the Day: Derrick A. Bell
05-24-2013
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
- Derrick Bell
From Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
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Prayer of the Day: 'Let the Moments'
05-24-2013
Let the moments and the hours of this day reverberate with sounds of our singing, with the words of the psalm, and with the praises we offer to you, O Lord. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Eugene Cho
05-23-2013
Justice is not peripheral to God's story. Justice — in its various forms — is mentioned over 200 times in the Scriptures. It's not optional, it's central. Seek justice.
- Eugene Cho
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Verse of the Day: Salt
05-23-2013
Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
- Mark 9:50
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Prayer of the Day: St. Francis
05-23-2013
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is despair, let me sow hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Amen.
A Prayer of St. Francis.
Prayer of the Day: For Faith Leaders
05-22-2013
Loving God, we pray for the leaders of denominations and churches. May we support them in love and truth as they advocate for the least of these among us. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Observe Justice
05-22-2013
Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.
- Psalm 106:3
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Voice of the Day: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
05-22-2013
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Verse of the Day: 'Because the Needy Groan'
05-21-2013
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Prayer of the Day:
05-21-2013
God, be with the first responders in Oklahoma, and may all in the communities and families be touched by your restorative will and strength.