Reflection
To follow Jesus means to be moved as he was by injustice and to see through the ignorance and selfishness that have brought us to this moment. We are called to an awareness of our emergence from the same Source and our kinship with all that is. This is not only a personal journey. God is revealed through the persons who surround us and the experiences of our lives. From this is born love and compassion. Having come to a a deeper awareness that we are all one, we can no longer view things with indifference. We are motivated to do all we can to work with those who are trying to bring us all to a new consciousness. We are inspired to work for a more just world.
Prayer
Come Holy Spirit and renew the face of the earth.
Action
Reflect on the implications of Jesus’ view of justice. How can your perspectives and actions reflect a fuller understanding of the respect and compassion due to all life?
Suggested Reading
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to God’s purpose.
Romans 8:26 – 28
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua Achebe
Our mission is bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth.
Awakening the Dreamer Initiative
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leave the world in better conditions in which you found it.
Baden Powel
If we desire to make the world a better place, we will experience the suffering of those in need.
Jamie West Zumwal
Many of us dream of a better, safer, more caring world, without recognizing that it all begins with creating and maintaining a deeper love in our own home. The seeds of world peace should be planted in our own backyard.
Anthon St. Maarten
To transform the world, help people, lift others up, change lives
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings…
Buddha
The more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards
God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
Meher Baba
The human being is part of the whole, called by us the ‘universe’,
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Daniel Goleman
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer