Colin O’Brien

“The freedom that stability provides not only encourages but necessitates change, growth, conversion.”

 

Question for Meditation: What allows you to grow?

Maya Angelou

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Question for Meditation: What gives you peace?

St. Teresa of Avila

“Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing scare you. All is fleeting. God alone is unchanging. Patience. Everything obtains. Who possesses God, nothing wants. God alone suffices.”

Question for Meditation: What gives you peace?

Hermann Hesse

“A tree says: My strength is trust. … I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.” 

Question for Meditation: What do you trust that gives you strength?

 

Scott Russell Sanders

“Those who care about nothing beyond the confines of their parish are in truth parochial, and are at least mildly dangerous to their parish; on the other hand, those who have no parish, those who navigate ceaselessly among postal zones and area codes, those for whom the world is only a smear of highways and bank accounts and stores, are a danger not just to their parish but to the planet.”

Question for Meditation: What in your life needs to be expanded, and what needs to be grounded?

 

Confucius

“When the wind blows, the grass bends.”

 

Question for Meditation: What winds have you felt blowing lately? How have you responded?

Gordon B. Hinckley

“People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that’s firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all this instability in which they are living.”

 

Question for Meditation: What anchors you?

“Contentment and fulfillment do not exist in constant change; true happiness cannot necessarily be found anywhere other than in this place and this time.”

Question for Meditation: What is one thing, today in this place, that brings you happiness?

“He said to them, ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.’”

Question for Meditation: Are you fully present in the space you are in?

Gerald W. Schlabach

“God is the stable rock, the rock who saves. In the stability of God and God’s purposes, in fact, lies our deepest freedom.”

Question for Meditation: What is your rock?