What Trail Are You On?

"Isn't the trail of our relationships the time it takes for the heart to practice its part in the movement we call Love?

Isn't the trail of our honest questions the time it takes for the mind to practice its part in the movement we call Wisdom?

Isn't the trail of our changing beliefs the time it takes for the spirit to practice its part in the movement we call God?

And isn't our trail of Oneness, those brief moments when everything comes together, isn't this the time it takes for Love and Wisdom and God to bring the common place in us alive?"

p. 64, The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo

I don't know, is it?

Loving in Reality; Living in Satisfaction

"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality—not as we expect it to be but as it is—is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

"Take, Lord, all my liberty,

my memory, my understanding,

and my whole will.

You have given me all that I have,

all that I am,

and I surrender all to Your Divine will.

You have given me all that I have,

all that I am,

and I surrender all to Your Divine will.

Give me only Your love and Your grace.

With this I am rich enough,

and I have no more to ask.

AMEN."

Ignatius of Loyola

(quoted in Prayers from the Heart, p. 27)

Praying for His Pattern of Love in My Life

"Today, O Lord, I yield myself to you.

May your will be my delight today.

May your way have perfect sway in me.

May your love be the pattern of my living."

Richard Foster

Prayers from the Heart

p. 24

Fool for Love?

"You may become 'a fool for love,' but real love will enable you to wise up." (p. 105, Jan Silvious, Fool-Proofing Your Life)

Loving intelligently. Loving with your brain. Loving with your intellect. You can do it. It will be a more real and powerful love. No one who loves is a fool. Others may act a fool with your love, but that's their problem! Don't let it be yours.

Loving With Your Brain

"Loving unconditionally doesn't mean loving without a brain." p. 218, Jan Silvious, Fool-Proofing Your Life

Use your brain to love intelligently.

Your love requires your brain as well as your heart.