Luke 22:42 (NRSVUE)

“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me;

yet, not my will but yours be done.”

I let go, and God holds what I release.

Kahlil Gibran, from *The Prophet*

“You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

For life and death are one,

even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow,

your heart dreams of spring.”

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Isaiah 26:3 (NRSVUE)

You keep in perfect peace

those whose minds are stayed on you,

because they trust in you.

My soul is held in stillness.

Rabindranath Tagore

“The storm whispers,

but the heart must listen for the stillness.

Peace does not come when the world grows quiet.

It comes when the soul grows deep.

Do not chase peace.

Dig for it.

Find it beneath your striving,

beneath your fear.

It has been waiting for you all along.”

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Psalm 23:1 (NIV)

The Lord is my shepherd,

I lack nothing.

In God, I have enough.

Dallas Willard

“The Lord is my Shepherd

is a sentiment that has become so familiar

we often miss the audacity of it.

To say, 'I shall not want,'

is to live as if everything I need

will be provided

when I need it—

not in anxiety,

but in sufficiency.

Not in scarcity,

but in trust.”

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