Galatians 6:9 (NRSVUE)

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right,

for we will reap at harvest time,

if we do not give up.

I am learning to stay with the work.

Benedict of Nursia

Let us set out on this way with the Gospel for our guide,

that we may deserve to see him who has called us into his kingdom.

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Luke 19:8–9 (NRSVUE)

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,

“Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor;

and if I have defrauded anyone of anything,

I will pay back four times as much.”

Then Jesus said to him,

“Today salvation has come to this house.”

I am learning to turn again.

Julian of Norwich

Our Lord does not say, “You shall not be tempted,

you shall not be troubled,

you shall not be distressed,”

but he says, “You shall not be overcome.”

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Joel 2:12–13 (NRSVUE)

Yet even now, says the LORD,

return to me with all your heart,

with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

rend your hearts and not your clothing.

Return to the LORD, your God,

for he is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.

I return to what is true.

Augustine of Hippo

Remember, you are dust.

Yet you are dust breathed upon by God.

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Psalm 103:14 (NRSVUE)

For he knows how we were made;

he remembers that we are dust.

I am learning to receive my limits.

Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life

is thank you,

it will be enough.

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Joshua 3:5 (NRSVUE)

Then Joshua said to the people,

“Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

I am learning to return.

T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

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Psalm 4:8 (NRSVUE)

I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O LORD, make me lie down in safety.

Tomorrow is held.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

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Proverbs 3:5–6 (NRSVUE)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and do not rely on your own insight.

In all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make straight your paths.

I choose trust today.

Charles R. Swindoll

“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.”

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Isaiah 30:15 (NRSVUE)

“For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:

In returning and rest you shall be saved;

in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”

You are near.

Thomas Merton

“In a world of noise, confusion and conflict – it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.”

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