Weekly Inspiration (6/22/23)

Quote of the Week

“We do not have the power to reform other people’s behavior, but we do have the power to choose our attitude in responding to other people’s behavior. Jesus had patience, but he wasn’t afraid to confront someone if their behavior wasn’t good for the whole. We have to live in a tricky balance of patience and honesty, with the same mind that Jesus had.”

-Br. Jack Crowley 
Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Poem of the Week

Kneeling
BY R. S. THOMAS
 
Moments of great calm,
Kneeling before an altar
Of wood in a stone church
In summer, waiting for God  
To speak; the air a staircase  
For silence; the sun’s light  
Ringing me, as though I acted  
A great role. And the audiences  
Still; all that close throng
Of spirits waiting, as I,
For the message.
        Prompt me, God;
But not yet. When I speak,  
Though it be you who speak  
Through me, something is lost.  
The meaning is in the waiting.