Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.
– Philippians 4:5

For every man is his own Jacob. He wakes up at the foot of his own ladder and sees the angels going up and down, with God at the top of the ladder. And thus he wakes up in his own unrecognizable house, his gate of heaven.

– Thomas Merton, journal entry April 22, 1951

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies–

The Heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
For fear to be a King–

Not all, even today, are of that supine sort that must have their life values given them, cried at them from the pulpits and other mass media of the day. For there is, in fact, in quiet places, a great deal of deep spiritual quest and finding now in progress in this world, outside the sanctified social centers, beyond their purview and control: in small groups, here and there, and more often, more typically (as anyone who looks around may leam), by ones and twos, there entering the forest at those points which they themselves have chosen, where they see it to be most dark, and there is no beaten way or path.

– Joseph Campbell

“Winter’s just the curtain, Spring will take the bow…”
~ Richard Shindell

Christianity’s view is: forgiveness is forgiveness; your forgiveness is your forgiveness; your forgiveness of another is your own forgiveness; the forgiveness which you give, you receive, not contrariwise, that you give the forgiveness for which you receive. – Soren Kierkegaard