@RealisticPoetry A stump.
Dappled in the sunlight,
Ravaged by time.
Shorn of the familiar,
Deep still in mystery.
A cradle of life
With echoes of majesty.
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This is the American that embodies our best values and ideals. Not the man in the White House. I am grateful that the world can see a very different side of the American people through his faithful witness.
I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!
No one can deny that evil is very real, but what many of us now observe as the real evils destroying the world—such as militarism, greed, scapegoating of other groups, and abuses of power—seem very different from what most people call sin. https://t.co/YNGc1EKtXb
“The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”
Some of the best life-advice ever put into words, from one of humanity's best poets https://t.co/m8jbpCDNcV
Our faith and our trust, then, are in God — not in our own cleverness, strategies, or planning, not in our status or money. In the desert, all our idols are taken away from us and our security is gone. https://t.co/vhkclHDV1q
I have enjoyed working with the “Daily Meditations” team on our new theme — Good News for a Fractured World. The reflections they are creating and curating bring me hope and inspiration, as I hope they have been for you.
It feels hopeless to see so much evil, evil allowed for so long.
But here’s something: there are people who abuse, and there are people who don’t care that people abuse, and there’s the rest of us.
It’s not much, but it is something to know who they are. And who you are.