Voices Heard - Friday Night Edition

Some thoughts that have been catching at my heart the last little while...

When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

- Eduardo Galeano,
The Book of Embraces

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous,
tranquil contribution of all
to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.

- Archbishop Oscar Romero

The November 20, Daily Text from the Moravians:

"The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
Lamentations 3:24

Through Christ you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the
dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. 1
Peter 1:21

We turn our eyes on you, Christ. By faith we look into your face and
receive blessings found nowhere else. But we are sometimes distracted by
the waves around us as Peter was. When we look away, take us by the hand
and lift us. Amen.

Today's Daily Text from the Moravians:

Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46:10

Jesus prayed, "Righteous Father, these know that you have sent me. I
made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love
with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them." John
17:25,26

Heavenly Father, we long to know you fully, but we will never understand
all that you are. We rejoice that there will never be an end to our
discoveries about your glory and power. In this moment, we wait before
you - touch us, we pray. Amen.