Weekly Inspiration 7/2/2026

We cannot close our eyes to all that is going wrong around us. But the abundance of the gifts of the Spirit, of the new creation established through Jesus Christ, are given to us “for the common good.” In the here and now, in this world that God so loves and that we see crying out in so much need, God gives us gifts to stand up and be God’s agents.

Br. Lain Wilson

Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Dandelion

by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

You grow in a crack in the sidewalk,

neither asking nor receiving hospitality.

Spreading your arms out

to what the city will give you of the sun,

reaching your roots down unseen,

patient among slabs and pipes and gravel,

you find a way to nourish yourself.

You gather yourself into this one simple blossom,

not a big one, but yellow in a desert of gray.

And what is it worth?

A guy comes along, distracted,

maybe troubled even, looking down.

He stops, sits on a cement block,

and stares at you. He tilts his head

as if reading something. After a long time

gazing at you he makes a single sound,

“mm,” and something that could be

a smile comes to his face.

He looks at the sky, takes a breath, gets up,

and walks off, somehow different.

You never know.