Rohr on Choosing Life

"Only people who first choose 'dualistically' for the Big Picture, the life adventure, the journey with God, eventually proceed to non-dual thinking or 'mercy.'   Sort of a paradox, isn't it?  You need both to the full distance.  Clear choice and decision gets you started, aims you on the right course, and then if you stay on it, that very path will open you up to subtlety, nuance, shadow, contradictions, inconsistencies, brokenness, and variance in almost everything.  One soon realizes that what Jesus said is indeed true:  Nothing is entirely good except God alone (see Mark 10:18).  The choice for this all-good God allows us, ironically, to deal victoriously with non-goodness."

~from Wondrous Encounters by Richard Rohr

Lost and Saved in Christ

"Whoever would save his life must first lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.  What profit does he show who gains the whole world yet destroys himself in the process?"

~Luke 9:24-25

Choose Life!

"I call heaven and earth to witness this.  I now set before you life and death, a blessing and a curse.  Choose life then, that you and your descendants will live, by loving the Lord, heeding His voice, and clinging to God."

~Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Now!

2 Corinthians 6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

 ¹ And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain— ² for He says,
   “AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU,
AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU.”
   Behold, now is “THE ACCEPTABLE TIME,” behold, now is “THE DAY OF SALVATION”

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%206&version=NASB


Behold: NOW is the acceptable time!  NOW is the day of salvation! :)

Gould on Art

"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

~ Glenn Gould

God Pours Out His Spirit

In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the the Lord.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

~ Acts 2: 17-21

We Will Not Comply!

Re the HHS Mandate to force everyone to supply coverage of abortions even if it violates our conscience:

We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law. People of faith cannot be made second-class citizens. We are already joined by our brothers and sisters of all faiths and many others of good will in this important effort to regain our religious freedom. Our parents and grandparents did not come to these shores to help build America’s cities and towns, its infrastructure and institutions, its enterprise and culture, only to have their posterity stripped of their God given rights. In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. I hope and trust she can count on this generation of Catholics to do the same. Our children and grandchildren deserve nothing less.

http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/a-letter-from-archbishop-dennis-m-schnurr-concerning-hhs-edict/5749

Crocs

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

~ Winston Churchill

There Was No-one Left!

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/niemoeller.html