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Sunday
Prophets always talk about the untalkable and open a huge new area of
“talkability.” It helps us see what we didn’t know how to see until they
helped us to see it. That's how we begin to recognize a prophet—there is this
widening of seeing, this deepening of a truth that was always there. —Richard
Rohr
Monday
What is a prophet? One who names the situation truthfully and in its largest
context. —Richard Rohr
Tuesday
However prophets may prophesy, their integrity is shown by the way in which
they give up their very lives as testimony and witness as they side with the
forgotten and the lost ones and loudly proclaim that God, who is aware of
their pain and feels their suffering as [God’s] own, will not allow that pain
and suffering to continue. —Megan McKenna
Wednesday
Anger is a source of my creativity. It’s a vaccination against apathy and
complacency. It’s a gift that can be abused—or wisely used. Yes, it’s a
temptation, but it’s also a resource and an opportunity, as unavoidable and
necessary as pain. It’s part of the gift of being human and being alive.
—Brian McLaren
Thursday
I believe truth is revolutionary; it’s part of the work of fierce love. Truth
makes a personal, spiritual, ethical, and moral demand upon us. It wants to
be said, known, told. It hurts and it’s inconvenient, but it’s essential to
our well-being. —Jacqui Lewis
Friday
Prophets believe that they have somehow entered into the experience of God.
They have entered into the heart of God. So when the prophet sees
non-compassion, when they see a hard heart in the hearts of the people, the
prophet says: “I know for certain that you do not know God, because the heart
of God is compassion.” —Richard Rohr
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