Common Action: Lifting Up Our Local Community
Every Friday, CIR encourages a specific action intended to strengthen the community. We lift up nonprofits helping diverse populations and recommend simple acts of kindness and compassion.
Wisdom Wednesday: Lyla June on honoring the feminine
“We need to give men folks a place to feel, and we need to give women folks a place to be safe.”
Merton Monday: On the ‘light of truth’ amid life’s storms
Merton speaks of finding truth "in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms."
Reflect: Mary Oliver’s “Pink Moon – The Pond”
"And thats when you know you will live whether you will or not, one way or another, because everything is everything else, one long muscle. It's no more mysterious than that."
Wisdom Wednesday: Balancing the feminine and masculine
Futurist and communications strategist Schuyler Brown at the 2018 Festival of Faiths.
Merton Monday: On partial truth vs. pure truth
“What we seek is not the pure truth, but the partial truth that justifies our prejudices, our limitations, our selfishness."
Reflect: An Island of Peace Within One’s Soul
"How foolish it is, how terrible, if you have not found your Island of Peace within your own soul! It means that you are living without the discovery of your true home."
Wisdom Wednesday: Rev. Herring on Truly Seeing People
“If I am to love the people, if I am to serve the people, I must first be able to see them.”
Merton Monday: On seeing God in everyone
“When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.”
Wisdom Wednesday: Chris Pramuk on Merton’s Observations in Harlem
“The noise of traffic and the uninterrupted cries of playing children, cries of life and joy coming out of purgatory, loud and strong the voice of a great living organism.”