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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
Sunday Inspiration: Silence
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
—Elie Wiesel
Sunday Inspiration: Good Trouble
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.
—John Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: The World
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
—Frederick Buechner
Sunday Inspiration: Responsibility
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
—Fred Rogers
Sunday Inspiration: The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
or grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
—Wendell Berry
Sunday Inspiration: The Right Day
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.
—Lhamo Thondup, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sunday Inspiration: Dreams
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
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