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Voice of the Day: Audre Lorde
10-22-2009
To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up ... Each of us must find our work and do it. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did.
Voice of the Day: Henri J. M. Nouwen
10-21-2009
For now, it seems that some fasting is the best way to remind myself of the millions who are hungry and to purify my heart and mind for a decision that does not exclude them.
Verse of the Day: Living According to the Spirit
10-21-2009
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Prayer of the Day: Deuteronomy 10:17-19
10-21-2009
Thank you that you are God of gods and Lord of lords, that you are the great God, mighty and awesome. You are not partial and take no bribes. You execute justice for the orphan and the widow.
Prayer of the Day: Pakistan
10-20-2009
We pray for the people of Pakistan, whose livelihoods are disrupted by the constant conflict, whose lives are lived in the shadow of violence.
Voice of the Day: Kathleen Norris
10-20-2009
Even when the psalms are at their most ecstatic, they convey holiness not with abstraction but with images from the world we know: rivers clap their hands, hills dance like yearling sheep.
Verse of the Day: "Blessed be the Lord"
10-20-2009
Blessed be the Lord, the God of
Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.
- Psalm 41:13
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
10-19-2009
I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states ... Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Verse of the Day: Intercession by the Spirit
10-19-2009
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
- Romans 8:26
Prayer of the Day: Thomas Merton's Prayer of Abandonment
10-19-2009
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Verse of the Day: "Commit your work to the Lord"
10-16-2009
All one's ways may be pure in
one's own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.
Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be
Voice of the Day: Saint Teresa of Avila
10-16-2009
I don't find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
from The Interior Castle
Prayer of the Day: Psalm 34:18
10-16-2009
You are near to the brokenhearted, and you save the crushed in spirit. May we dwell in that truth, remembering that for ourselves as well as for those around us.
Voice of the Day: Eboo Patel
10-15-2009
Everywhere I go -- from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. -- I find people with a similar story.
Prayer of the Day: Environmental Stewardship
10-15-2009
Maker of all things, Creator of heaven and earth, we thank you for the wonder and beauty of nature.
Verse of the Day: "Be strong and courageous"
10-15-2009
I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
- Joshua 1:9
Voice of the Day: William Connolly
10-14-2009
In a world marked by the coexistence of multiple faiths ... the horizontal relations between faiths require as much attention as the vertical dimension of each.
Verse of the Day: "God of all consolation"
10-14-2009
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Giver of mercies and the God of all consolation, who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are i
Prayer of the Day: IDPs
10-14-2009
God of mercy, we lift up the 25 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who, because of conflict and violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, have been forced t
Verse of the Day: My Word Shall Not Return Empty
10-13-2009
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,