Great Carnival Season Leads to Ash Wednesday!

Ash Wednesday and Lent in Two Minutes (dotmagis.com)
Here’s a short video from Busted Halo that covers a lot of ground in not a lot of time.

Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gradually clear of itself.

Lao-Tzu
Tao Te Ching

People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?”
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Dorothy Day

Laughing is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Love that goes upward is worship.  Love that goes outward is affection.  Love that stoops is grace.

- Donald Barnhouse

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

-Diane Ackerman

You are the answer to someone else’s prayer. ~ Betsy Muller

Love is the supreme opportunity to fulfill our life’s purpose of transformation – yet the experience of true love on earth also means that to a certain extent our purpose has already been fulfilled because real love transcends ego needs.

Yehuda Berg, Daily Kabbalah

grace means more than gifts.  in grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome.  grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation.  grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self.  grace means accepting the abandoned one.  grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation.  it transforms guilt to trust and courage.  the word grace has something triumphant in it.

Yrjo Kallinen

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder