"If you're my greatest friend in the world, Do you think I am worrying about how kosher you are? The only thing that matters is that we're friends. Being friends, loving another person, is the deepest thing there is." R. Shlomo Carlebach














“Yesterday and tomorrow are man‟s downfall. Today you
may be aroused to serve God. But yesterday and tomorrow
will pull you back. It is written, „Repent one day before your
death.‟ During your lifetime, you may only be worthy of one
day of repentance. This  one day is more precious than
every treasure.” (Rabbi Nachman‟s Wisdom #288)

The password of the early Christians was joy, so let us still serve the Lord with joy. Joy is love, joy is prayer, joy is strength. God loves a person who gives joyfully, and if you give joyfully you always give more. A joyful heart is the result of a heart burning with love.

Works of love are always works of joy. We don't need to look for happiness: if we have love for others we'll be given it. It is the gift of God.

Mother Teresa

Wiebke Popel

Then He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire,


a still small voice.


1Kings 19:11-12

The following prayer is the prayer every Missionary of Charity says before leaving for his or her Apostolate. It is also used as the Physician's Prayer in Shishu Bhavan, the children's home in Calcutta:


Dear Lord, the Great Healer, I kneel before You,
since every perfect gift must come from You.


I pray, give skill to my hands, clear vision to my mind,
kindness and meekness to my heart.


Give me singleness of purpose,
strength to lift up a part of the burden of my suffering
fellow men, and a true realization of the privilege that is mine.


Take from my heart all guile and worldliness,
that with the simple faith of a child,


I may rely on You.

perhaps this can be our prayer too...

To you I lift up my eyes,
 to you enthroned in the heavens.

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,
 and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to the Lord our God,
 until he show us mercy.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy,
 for we have had more than enough of contempt,

Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich,
 and the derision of the proud.

Psalm 123

Moral good consists

in the control of the passions and

the restruction of the inordinate appetites. The result for the soul is

tranquility, peace, repose, and moral

virtue. The soul cannot control the

passion without forgetting and

withdrawing from the sources of

these emotions. Disturbances never

arise in a soul unless through the

apprehensions of the memory. 

The soul must go to God by not

comprehending rather than by comprehending and it must exchange

the mutable and comprehensible for

the Immutable and Incomprehensible.

St. John of the Cross

In the World to Come there is no eating or drinking... but the righteous sit with crowns on their heads feasting on the brightness of the divine presence, as it says, "And they beheld God, and did eat and drink (Exodus 24:11)."
Babylonian Talmud, Berakoth 17A