Weekly Inspiration 9/03/2026

If you’ve stumbled and fallen, if your initial fervor and zeal have faded away, if you haven’t been true to your promise to love and serve God with your whole heart, don’t be troubled. Don’t waste time wallowing in guilt and shame. Simply return, in repentance and faith, and offer yourself once again. There can be no doubt that God will welcome you with open arms.

Br. David Vryhof

Society of Saint John the Evangelist

The Field

by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

You won't find it in an exotic market

behind a secret beaded curtain,

not on the last hundred meters

of the mountain finally conquered.

You won't achieve it after a long struggle.

It will come to you, unbidden, lightly masked.

You'll stumble upon it on a sidewalk.

It will blossom in a small, unremarkable place.

It will be tiny, like yeast, and change everything.

A friend's glance, a stranger's comment.

A sudden sunrise of forgiveness, the shadow

of a companion when you thought you were alone.

A portal no greater than a bee on a flower

opens to an entire world inside this one,

of grace unasked, unbound, passed on

like the bee's dance to any who witness.

For the bee you'd buy the flower, the field,

the world.