Madeleine L'Engle

I will not have anything to do with a God who cares only occasionally.  I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights.  It is when things go wrong, when the good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present.  We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly.  We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

Nancy Wood

My help is in the mountain
Where I take myself to heal
The earthly wounds
That people give to me.
I find a rock with sun on it
and a stream where the water runs
gently and the trees which one
by one give me company.
So must I stay for a long time
Until I have grown from the rock
And the stream is running through me
And I cannot tell myself from one tall tree,
Then I know that nothing touches me
Nor makes me run away.
My help is in the mountain
That I take away with me.

Earth cure me.  Earth receive my woe.
Rock strengthen me.  Rock receive my
weakness. Rain wash my sadness away.
Rain receive my doubt.  Sun make sweet
my song.  Sun receive the anger from
my heart.

Thomas Merton

You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going.  What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Avery Brooke

Having faith means that we stop worrying so much about what we don´t believe and learn to listen for whispers of the unprovable Infinite... In our heart and minds, in the happenings of each day, in the hills and in the streets, in horror and happiness, God is there, and if we listen and do not turn away, we will hear God.

Experience and relationship: keys to transformation

Hello to everyone from Resistencia in the Chaco Region of Argentina.  I would like to share an article that I wrote for Intersections, a publication of the Mennonite Central Committee with all of you who are interested in education.  You can download the magazine at the following link.  Mine is the last article in the publication.  Experience and relationship: keys to transformation 
by Elena Huegel

http://mcc.org/media/resources/1127

more general link to the MCC Intersections publication:
http://mcc.org/stories/intersections 
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