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“Gratitude” by Max Kapp
Often I have felt that I must praise my world For what my eyes and ears have seen these many years, And what my heart has loved. And often I have tried to start my lines: “Dear earth,” I say, And then I pause To look once more. Soon I am bemused And far away in wonder. So I never get beyond “Dear Earth.” Source: Day of Promise: Collected Meditations, Volume One, edited by Kathleen Montgomery. Skinner House, 2001.
Out of the well of serenity comes a cool water with starlight shining in its depths
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
To begin each day as if it were opening for the first time into the freshness and vibrancy of expectant living is to enter into the joy of the morning as a spiritual experience. We cannot sever ourselves from yesterday, but we need not add to yesterday's burden
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
In a hundred ways, we need to learn the art of reconciliation. In our personal relationships with others, in our group life, in labor relations, in political relations, in economic life, we need to extend the principle of an understanding good will. But such a spirit can express itself only after it has been formed and informed in the composure of our own souls
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: A Lenten Manual for 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
Humility is teachableness...True science, true religion and true humility are not strangers to one another.
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: A Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
Forgiveness is the practice of regenerative love towards others. The wonderful part of this practice is that by it we are forgiven. By refusing to return evil for evil, we create strong character within ourselves...By stopping to take thought and refusing to reply to anger with more anger, we break a vicious circle, and inject a new redemptive element into a conflict
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: A Lenten Manual for 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
I am not afraid of the earth and its strange strength. I tread upon it, and it exalts me. I know my kinship with the dust, but even there a Nameless Presence hides and puts forth its purpose and dreams and designs.
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: A Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
It is the habit of our thinking to assume we earn our way in life, and are given measures of possessions according as we deserve them. But we are pensioners of the universe and receive far, far more than ever we return.
Max Kapp, Earth's Common Things: A Lenten Manual 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
