“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work, and you don’t give up.” Anne Lamott
“The most helpful discovery of today has been that right in the midst of my sorrows there is always room for joy. Joy and sorrow are sisters; they live in the same house.” Macrina Wiederkehr
Today pause and look at the history of your inner seasons. Is it possible for you to accept the difficult seasons along with the joyful, ones, to see each as an essential part of your spiritual growth.
Breathprayer:
Breathing in: Joy and sorrow...
Breathing out:....living together
Scripture: John 12:20-26
“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (Jn 12:24)
Journal:
Joy and sorrow together have taught me....
Prayer:
God help me accept both the joy and the sorrow in my life, help me know how they both strengthen and complete me.
Love pours out
but the broken cup cannot receive
too pained
too discouraged
too shamed
too broken hearted
too burned out
too lonely
too disenchanted
Love waits to strengthen
Love waits to nourish
Love waits to be received
Love waits to heal
in time the cup will be mended
in time the cup will be raised
in time the cup will receive again
in time
in time
- Joyce Rupp
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