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Relinquish

12/3/2013

relinquish [ri-ling-kwish]

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: give up, let go

Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast, cast off, cede, cut loose, desert, discard, ditch, drop, drop like hot potato, drop out, dump, forbear, forgo, forsake, forswear, hand over,
kick, kiss good-bye, lay aside, leave, opt out, quit, quit cold turkey, release, renounce, repudiate,
resign, retire from, sacrifice, shed, stand down, surrender, swear off, take the oath, take the pledge, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield

What do I need to relinquish?
My narrow vision of God?
My shaping of God in my own image?
My possession of God?

May we be blessed as we relinquish that which does not bring us into the arms of LOVE.

RELINQUISH

Night

11/3/2013

"Oh night thou was my guide
Of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them into the other"

Loreena McKennitt

Blessings to all who dwell in the dark night of the soul.

NIGHT

Obstacle

10/3/2013

"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.
You can climb it and cross to the other side.
You can go around it.
You can dig under it.
You can fly over it.
You can blow it up.
You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.
You can turn around and go back the way you came.
Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”

Vera Nazarian

OBSTACLE

What God

9/3/2013

Daniel Berrigan SJ writes in "Uncommon Prayer",

"I had rather a thousand times spend my life's energies
working to heal injustice around me,
and never once speak of God;
of doing for God,
of clarifying my motives (!) -
than spend my life converting others to God,
while I gave not a snap
for prisoners, slave camps, wars, starving peoples,
the sins of the mighty,.
To what God would I be converting others,
in such a demented case?
In what God would I believe?"

May God rain down blessings upon us.

WHAT GOD

Approach

8/3/2013

"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind.
It may only stimulate your
intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs.
Try to approach God with your crying heart.
It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."

Sri Chimnoy

May your approach be filled with grace.

Search

7/3/2013

How do we search?
Why do we search?
For what do we search?
With whom do we search?

May our search be blessed.

SEARCH

Intimate

6/3/2013

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving
but this,
in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
Pablo Neruda in 100 Love Sonnets

Close your eyes.
Imagine God whispering these words to you.
Imagine yourself saying these words to God.

Intimacy with God is a grace and a blessing.
Let us receive it with open hearts.

INTIMATE

Centre

5/3/2013

"You are the centre,
you are my life.
You are the centre
O Lord, of my life.

Give me your spirit,
teach me your ways
Give me your peace, Lord,
and set me free."

Margaret Rizza

CENTRE

Movement

4/3/2013

All of life is a movement.
Alfred Adler says,

“Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.”

May our movement be a grace-filled experience.

MOVEMENT

Tree of life

3/3/2013

ee cummings wrote ...

"here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(the root of the root
the bud of the bud
the sky of the sky
of the tree called life;
which grows higher than the soul can hope and the mind can hide)
and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)"

May the tree of your life bear much blessing.

TREE OF LIFE