Thought for the Day http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress A ministry of Community Presbyterian Church, Gustine, California Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:08:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Sunday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1651 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1651#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:08:38 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1651 Help me make a place for you
wherever you need to be.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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— Morris West

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1649 0 Friday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1647 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1647#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:04:29 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1647 We will discover that the Creation is not in any sense independent of the Creator, the result of a primal creative act long over and done with, but  is the continuous participation of all creatures in the being of God.

— Wendell Berry

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1647 0 Thursday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1645 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1645#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:55:37 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1645 Discipleship is not a question of our own doing:  it is a matter of our making room for God so that he can live in us.

— J. Heinrich Arnold

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1645 0 Wednesday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1643 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1643#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:52:46 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1643 Jesus constantly relied on his friends, using their boats and homes, eating their food, enjoying their companionship. He needed them!  This was the authenticating mark of his real incarnation.

— C. Norman Kraus

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1643 0 Tuesday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1641 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1641#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:51:22 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1641 The God of curved space, the dry
God, is not going to help us, but the son
whose blood spattered
the hem of his mother’s robe.

— Jane Kenyon

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1641 0 Monday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1639 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1639#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:51:15 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1639 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself  likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.

— Hebrews 2:14-15

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1639 0 Sunday http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1637 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1637#comments Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:26:43 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1637 We submit
to Your rule
as the flowers in May
submit themselves to
Your Holy rule—

— William Carlos Williams

]]> http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1637 0 Saturday, Christmas Day http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1635 http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1635#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:24:28 +0000 admin http://www.wefollowjesusingustine.org/daily/wordpress/?p=1635 Holiness—an area in which practice is everything and theory is nothing.

— Donald Nicholl

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— Andrew Greeley

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