Silence frees us to learn,
to become, to reflect,
to respond, and to repent.
to become, to reflect,
to respond, and to repent.
--Sr. Joan Chittister
To repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God’s love. It is not to look backwards with self-reproach, but forward with trustfulness. It is to see not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I might yet become.
–St. John Climacus
Image source: Courtney Mattison, large scale coral reef sculpture, https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/visual-art/courtney-mattison-what-will-become/
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