Photo: A surplus

Prayer: Oscar Romero

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

Photo: Decorative Gourds

Prayer: Oscar Romero

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.

Photo: Beige Pumpkins

Prayer: Oscar Romero

Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the market. Wherever there is someone who has been baptized, that is where the church is. There is a prophet there. Let us not hide the talent that God gave us on the day of our baptism and let us truly live the beauty and responsibility of being a prophetic people.

Photo: Indian Corn

Photo: Pumpkin and Blue Shed

Prayer: Mechtild of Magdeburg

Of all that God has shown me 
I can speak just the smallest word, 
Nor more than a honey bee 
Takes on his foot 
From an overspilling jar. 

Photo: Autumn Gold