Henri J. M. Nouwen 18 Transformation and inner freedom can grow out of our inner struggle to accept our involuntary isolation. It can throw us on the mercy and love of our God. When we come to Confession out of brokenness and openness, we discover again the love of God. Calvin Miller 20 Faith promises. Even in our darkest hour, when meaning seems lost, on behalf of our own heart's desire, faith still fights.
Hope still holds.
Love still lives. To the truly alert palate, a drink of spring water is full of flavor. David Steindl-Rast and Sharon Lebell 22 Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness. James Thurber 23 Virtue that is gloomy, morose, sour, hard is virtue only in name. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.