BE HOLY, BE KIND

If you want to be holy, be kind.

Frederick Buechner

INSCRIBING MEANING TO MEMORIES

Personal healing happens not so much by remembering traumatic events and their accompanying emotions as by interpreting memories and inscribing them into a larger pattern of meaning - stitching them into the patchwork quilt of one’s identity, as it were.

Miroslav Volf
The End of Memory

WE SHAPE THE MEMORIES THAT SHAPE US

We are not just shaped by memories; we ourselves shape the memories that shape us.

Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory

UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung

TO KNOW DEEPLY IS TO LOVE MORE

What’s true of other people is also true of places: to know deeply is to love more. To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is the key to love.

Nathanael Johnson
Unseen City

NEVER FORGET TODAY

There are people who will never forget today. No day belongs to us. Each day is a gift.

John O’Donohue

UNLEARNED THE GRACE OF PRESENCE AND BELONGING

While we seem to have progressed to become experts in so many things - we have unlearned the grace of presence and belonging.

John O’Donohue

FUTURE WHOLENESS

A blessing awakens future wholeness.

John O’Donohue

THE PERMANENT CLIMATE

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness.

John O’Donohue

SPACE WHERE CHANGE CAN TAKE PLACE

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

Henri Nouwen

TREES

If you look at the big picture - the tree as it’s growing - nothing happens. If, however, you notice the details - the leaves emerging, the flowers forming, the fruits bursting from flowers - then trees seethe with action.

Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City