A Life-Line to Take Hold of:

We face the situation that there is nothing we can do for people except to love them. . . . We continue in our fourteenth year of feeding our brother and clothing him and sheltering him and the more we do it the more we realize that the most important thing is to love. . . . What I mean is that there is no chance of rehabilitation, no chance, so far as we see, of changing them; certainly no chance of adjusting them to this abominable world about them, and who wants them adjusted anyway?

What we would like to do is change the world––make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And to a certain extent, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute––the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor in other words, we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We can give away an onion.

We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and dear God–please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

~ Dorothy Day 

Lectio — What word, phrase, or sentence catches your attention today, grabs your heart? Chew on it, bring it into your prayer, ingest it, bring it into your life.

Today’s Promise: I will be a pebble in the pond.

Promise — from the Latin prōmittere to promise, literally, to send forth