Dear Friends,

As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.

Today's Meditation offers a reflection on The Four Faces of Love: loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity, also known as the Brahmaviharas or Divine Abidings.

Dear Friends,

As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.

In Today's Meditation, Henri Nouwen reflects on Nature pointing to God's Love. These days, birds singing, trees sheltering and ocean ebbing and flowing are speaking to me the most.

Dear Friends,

As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.

Today's Meditation features an art piece and then a reflection by Catherine of Siena on the theme: God is Beauty. It was sent to us by Mary Burke.

Dear Friends,

On this 54th Anniversary of my Ordination, I find myself feeling a joyful gratitude for all the people who have crossed my path and called forth the best in me--we have been walking on Holy Ground together--you have shown yourself to me: God face to face!

Dear Friends,

As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.

Today's Meditation is a reflection by Joan Chittister on Benedict and a new way of seeing and Kateri Tekakwitha and May Sarton and Rembrandt and Mary McLeod Bethune and the poem Living in the Body.