Reflection
Forgetful of who we are, we live out of ignorance instead of wisdom, fear instead of love, and fantasy instead of reality. The more we forget that the image of God is the deepest reality within us, the less we delve into those inner depths for the gifts of God. The less we make use of the spiritual resources implanted at the heart of our being, the more we come to believe that they are not there. And the less that we believe that such riches are within us, the more we treat ourselves and others with lack of respect.
The Book of Creation, J. Philip Newell
Prayer
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people
and enkindle in us the fire of your love.
Action
I will try to remember that we qre q;; made in the image of God and to treat others with the respect they deserve.
Suggested Reading
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple? God’s Spirit lives in you.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depth, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me. Your right had will hold me fast.
Psalm 139:7-10
It is necessary to place the dignity of the human person at the center of every prospect and every action. Other interests, even if legitimate, are secondary. At the center is the dignity of the human person. Why? Because the human person is in the image of God, was created in the image of God, and we are all in the image of God!
Pope Francis
Contemplative vision is the vision that says “you are good as you are because you are the sacrament of God’s love.”
Ilia Delio
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
Leo Tolstoy
If we are all made in God’s reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror?
Suzy Kassem
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr
Man … has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar.
Horace Mann