Thought for the Day

 Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement

and despairs and gives up when such improvement does

not come. If protest depended on success, there would be

little protest of any durability or significance. History simply

affords too little evidence that anyone's individual protest

is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope

far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope

of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that

would be destroyed by acquiescence.

    ~ Wendell Berry

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Quoted from Wendell Berry, "A Poem of Difficult Hope" in What Are People For: Essays (Counterpoint Press. 2010)

 

Wendell Berry, Poet, Fiction Writer, Essayist, Author; Environmental Activist; Cultural Critic; Farmer

The Berry Center

Thought for the Day

[. . .] I went in search of truth and found love at the heart

of all things. I have come to realize that all knowledge is

true knowledge – whether in the sciences or in the

humanities – if it moves one to fall more deeply in love.

~ Ilia Delio

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Quoted from "Love is the Source of All," Daily Meditations on Contemplation and Science, Center for Action and Contemplation, December 5, 2024

 

 Ilia Delio, Scientist and Theologian; Author, Birth of a Dancing Star (Orbis Books, 2019), pp. 195, 196, 200

Thought for the Day

What separates privilege from entitlement

is gratitude.

~ Brene Brown

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Quoted from Brene Brown, What Separates Privilege from Entitlement is Gratitude: Gratitude Journal for Women (Morium Great Press, 2021)

Thought for the Day

The only true life we live in this world is the life we consent to

live in relationship, messy and entangled though it might be.

The only fruit worth sharing with the world is the fruit

we'll produce together.

~ Debie Thomas

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Quoted from Debie Thomas, "Bearing Fruit Together" (Daily Meditation) at Center for Action and Contemplation, November 13, 2024 (Online)

Debie Thomas, Author, A Faith of Many Rooms and Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories; Columnist; Contributing Editor, The Christian Century; Speaker

Center for Action and Contemplation

Thought for the Day

What I am interested in is unexpected gatherings of people

who manage to tolerate working together to make surprising

things emerge from their unexpected coalitions. [. . .] Surprise

is an old human emotion. When employed for the purposes of 

creating ⏤ not destroying ⏤ it can elicit energy, ideas and work.

~ Padraig O' Tuama

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Quoted from Padraig O' Tuama, "Art and coalition | The survival of surprise," Poetry Unbound Newsletter (Substack), November 10, 2024 (Online)

Padraig O' Tuama, Poet, Theologian, Mediator