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4-month-old fighting for life after a drowning incident –from Beliefnet member tristafamily Add your prayers now

I have no particular taste for post-mortem immortality. I am immortal now, while I am gloriously alive. –Rabbi Joel Blau, “My Uncertain God,” 1924

16. Don’t send a Christmas card to anyone you wouldn’t want to have over for dinner. Plus: Pick Your Favorite Christmas Photo

Lord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas…To you we say, “Come Lord Jesus!” –Henri J. M. Nouwen

First of all, do not predefine understanding, and do not make a principle of non-understanding. –Ying-an From “Teachings of Zen,” edited by Thomas Cleary, © 1998. By arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, www.shambhala.com.

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he consumes the foe, And in the evening he divides the spoil.” All these were the tribes of Israel, twelve in number, and this is what their father said to them as he bade them farewell, addressing to each a parting word appropriate to him. Then he…

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. –Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A drunken man staggered in to a Catholic church and sat down in a confession box, saying nothing. The bewildered priest coughed to attract his attention, but still the man said nothing. The priest then knocked on the wall three times in a final attempt to get the man to speak. Finally, the drunk replied,…

Matthew 25:14-30 14 “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15 to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 The one who had received the five talents…

[14] For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. [15] And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. [16]…
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