Firm Foundations
18But I will
establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons,
your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19And of
every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the
ark, to keep them alive with you;
Genesis 6:18-19
Noah
The
Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
Bethesda,
Maryland
(Nelson Mandela) has given us firm foundations,
whose bricks are magnanimity and generosity,
forgiveness and reconciliation; ...
~ Desmond Tutu
To know what you prefer
instead of
humbly saying Amen to what
the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul
alive.
~
Robert Louis Stevenson
You
must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean;
if a
few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the
ocean does not become dirty.
~
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Alice, a
non-swimmer, snorkeling in Maui.
(Now
that took great courage and
faith!)
I always
think that we all live, spiritually,
by what others have given
us in the significant hours of our life.
These significant hours do
not announce themselves as coming,
but arrive
unexpected.
~ Albert
Schweitzer1
May 29,
2005 Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of
Goro-san's favorite running places in Iwate, Japan.
Noah,
Stained Glass
Jesus
Church
Troutbeck,
Cumbria
UK
P.S. Noah's wife was NOT Joan of
Arc.
...as
we live our lives, give us the wisdom to live our lives well. Give us the
grace to build our lives upon the solid foundation of your truth. Give us
the courage to walk your way, that narrow way that leads to life. Keep
restoring your image in us. Keep guiding us in your way. Set us upon
the rock. Amen.
