Fasting or Feasting

One day St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross met for a meal.  Grapes were brought in.  "I'm not going to eat any," said John of the Cross.  "Too many people have none."  Teresa answered, "I, on the contrary, am going to eat them, to praise God for these grapes."  Their conversation mirrors one of the tensions of the contemporary Church.

Br. Roger of Taize

Loving the Questions

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Rilke

Identity and Integrity

“Identity lies in the intersection of the diverse forces that make up my life and integrity lies in relating those forces in ways that bring me wholeness and life rather than fragmentation and death.”

• • • • Parker Palmer