Micah 6:8 (NRSV)

He has told you, O mortal, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?

What is simple is often most sacred.

Wendell Berry, from *The Mad Farmer Liberation Front*

“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay.

Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid

to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.

Not even your future will be a mystery anymore.

Your mind will be punched in a card

and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something

they will call you.

Ask the questions that have no answers.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Say that your main crop is the forest

that you did not plant,

that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested

when they have rotted into the mold.

Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

Practice resurrection.”

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Matthew 11:28–30 (NRSV)

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens,

and I will give you rest.

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.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

I lay down what no longer serves the journey.

St. Teresa of Ávila

Let nothing disturb you.

Let nothing frighten you.

All things are passing; God never changes.

Patience obtains all things.

Whoever has God lacks nothing.

God alone suffices.

Jean Vanier

“To live with Jesus is to live with the poor,

to live with the broken, and to live with myself—

as I really am.

That is where healing begins,

and it always begins with letting go of what is false.”

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Psalm 139:23–24 (NRSV)

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

In stillness, You show me who I truly am.

Thomas R. Kelly, from *A Testament of Devotion*

“Deep within us all there is a wonderful inner sanctuary of the soul,

a holy place, a Divine Center,

a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return.

It is lighted by the presence of God

and is the sheer grace of the eternal breaking into the temporal.

When we sink down into this quiet Center,

we come to know ourselves as seen,

not with shame, but with clarity.

We are not who we perform to be,

but who we are when no one is watching.

And that person—still and surrendered—

is the one God already knows and loves.”

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