Sunday
The dualistic mind cannot deal with the biggies: love, death, suffering, God, infinity, and the very notion of grace.
—Richard Rohr
Monday
God is bigger than all our little boxes. God’s love transcends the lines we draw on earth.
—Jen Austin
Tuesday
I will live by the best I can discern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.
—Verna Dozier
Wednesday
We are ever evolving, ever becoming, and ever unfolding. We can hold what we think we know about ourselves with open hands.
—Cassidy Hall
Thursday
In any relationship, fierce love causes us to cross boundaries and borders to discover one another, to support one another, to heal one another.
—Jacqui Lewis
Friday
God loves and creates each one of us as a unique being with different gifts and challenges. If we stay small and “hide our light” under a bushel basket, there is almost no place for God to move in, through, and with us for the sake of the world!
—Richard Rohr
Week Twenty-Two Practice
On the Edges
Poet Alison Davis finds blessings for those who are on the edges of who they are and what they think they know:
“A Blessing for Those at the Edge”
Maybe you walked here.
Maybe you ran here.
Maybe you followed a trail of stones, of feathers, of flowers,
of scents, of sky.
Maybe you went afoot with the Mystery & so how you got here
is also a mystery.
But here is where you are & here
is always its own kind of blessing & here
at the edge, blessings compound.
Bless those at the edge of the river
of their heart,
full of promise.
Bless those at the edge of the morning,
singing the bright face of day
into the blue.
Bless those at the edge of what they know,
watching the old certainties crumble.
Bless those at the edge of doom,
bearing it out, as the famous bard wrote,
with or without the draw of a happy ending.
Bless those at the edge of love
of self, of other, of world,
as the way forward grows more subtle, less sound.
Bless those at the edge of language,
whose tongues & tales & names
are more pledge than guarantee.
Bless those at the edge of believing
a life can be lived at the edge.
Reference:
Alison Davis, Italics:Poems (Wildhouse Poetry, 2026), 1. Used with permission.
Image credit and inspiration: Beth Macdonald, untitled (detail), 2022, photo, Unsplash. Click here to enlarge image. An estuary reveals a world that is more than just land or water, but something beyond them both.
