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Sunday Inspiration: Hope
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
—Rebecca Solnit
Sunday Inspiration: When You’re Wrong
Admit when you’re wrong. Shut up when you’re right.
—John Gottman
Sunday Inspiration: The Light that Is You
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
—L. R. Knost
Sunday Inspiration: People Who Have Come Alive
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
—Howard Thurman
Sunday Inspiration: Enough
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every man’s greed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sunday Inspiration: The Truth about Myself
O God, help me to believe the truth about myself—no matter how beautiful it is.
—Macrina Wiederkehr
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: Honesty
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
—John Lennon
Sunday Inspiration: A Franciscan Benediction
May God bless you with discomfort
At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships
So that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger
At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears
To shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger and war,
So that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and
To turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness
To believe that you can make a difference in the world,
So that you can do what others claim cannot be done,
To bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.
Sunday Inspiration: Eight Rules
1. Be clean both inside and out.
2. Neither look up to the rich nor down to the poor.
3. Lose, if need be, without squealing.
4. Win without bragging.
5. Always be considerate of women, children, and older people.
6. Be too brave to lie.
7. Be too generous to cheat.
8. Take your share of the world and let others take theirs.
—George Washington Carver
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