Reflection
We know only too well the story that defines our world today. It is a tale of consumerism and greed, sustained by the empty but enticing promise of an endless stream of “stuff” as the source of our happiness and well-being. Some of us are finally coming to recognize the self-destructive madness of this myth, how we are ravaging our own ecosystem to fulfill a fantasy. Many of us now long for a new story, one that will restore reverence to the Earth and reconnect our souls to the sacred within creation, a story that will save our planet, a beautiful and compelling vision of the entire universe as a single, inextricably interconnected, living whole, returning to us a sense of wonder that nourishes our body and soul. We recognize the need for a new story, a story that returns the spirit to creation and honors the primal oneness that is the web of life. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Prayer
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Action
Reflect on the text above and its implications.
Suggested Reading
So that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints.
Ephesians 1:18
We must not stumble upon tomorrow, we must build it, and we all have the responsibility to do so in a way that responds to the project of God, which is none other than the happiness of mankind, the centrality of mankind, without excluding anyone.
Pope Francis
Inescapably, we are challenged to encounter and befriend the Holy One, not in a heaven hereafter, but in the evolutionary revelatory power of the sacredness in which we are immersed each day.
Diarmuid O’Murchu
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Thomas Paine
Everything that is was once envisioned.
Abiodun Fijabi
You create what you think, so choose to think about what you wish to live.”
Paching Hoé Lambaiho
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.
Catherine Pulsifer
Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
Jim Rohn