It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.  Mother Teresa

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on course. —Boniface

"Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer to the latter."  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I fight

I get hit

I wince from the pain

I stumble and lean against the ropes

I fall down

I look upward

I cannot quit

I strain to get back on my feet

The sun sets, Round over

I return to my corner

Battle won? Battle lost?

I receive encouragement and instruction

I quench my thirst

Rest for but a moment

Sun rises

I return to the fight

I will not get knocked out

The decision is already in the Judges hand

St. Augustine says:
In necessariis unitas,
In essentials unity,
In dubiis libertas,
In doubtful things liberty,
In omnibus autem caritas,
But in all things love