Weekly Inspiration (6/1/25)

“When God speaks, God acts: “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made. . . . For he spoke, and it came to pass” (Ps 33:6, 9). So when God says, “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” God is enacting it, making it real. Jesus tells us to believe in the Father, and to believe in him—and that this assurance is true.”

Br. Lain Wilson
Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Riverbank

by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

           “I give you a new commandment,
            that you love one another
            just as I have loved you.”
                        —John 13.34

Look at the river.
It has no water of its own.

It receives from upstream,
and passes on what it receives.

You are not the spring,
but the riverbank.

You don't have to have love,
you only have to pass it on.

Imagine loving as you have been loved,
rivering through your heart.

The only means to fuller love
is to receive more fully.