We search and strive and struggle all our lives, and in the end it always comes back to love. Boundless love. Jesus is our touchstone, our wisdom teacher, because he knew that and lived it. But as Goethe wrote, “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
Enter my hearing, Oh, silence
Soften my sight with love
Rid my thoughts of harshness
Open my search for good
There once was an extraordinary young man
born in Nazareth centuries before
airplanes, cars, or computers
but a man in many ways similar
to you and I.
Boundless love in all creation,
Source and pulse of human life,
Unseen hope of every nation,
Healer of disease and strife;
