Ride the WavesReflections by Steve L.

A Wave

January 18, 2025

“Driving Walt home, I was so grateful for the simple art of letting go.”

Three readings. A song that says the rest. And inspiration for whatever this day is here to teach.

A lone surfer riding inside a great curling wave

Read — the readings that opened the day

1

Reading

Eknath Easwaran

“We don’t first get to know God and then, by some miracle of grace, come to love our fellow human beings. Loving others comes first. In this sense, learning to love is practicing religion. Those who can put the welfare of others before their own small personal interests are religious, even if they would deny it.”

2

Reading

Friedrich Nietzsche

“We need not shun all power, but rather we learn to use it wisely. Our blindness to the limitations of power created great problems in our lives. Then we learned our first lessons about personal powerlessness. We know we can be wrong, but we cannot be passive and still continue to grow. I pray for guidance as I learn to assert my strength and power for a higher purpose; love and the Spirit of general well-being.”

3

Excerpt From Kahlil Gibran Premium Collection

Kahlil Gibran

“Let my grace be wide, So that the twilight shadows will come and sit by me.”

4

Excerpt from A Deep Breath of Life

Alan Cohen

“Help me give my full presence and integrity to everyone I meet, that my heart will be full of Your essence. As I give, I shall receive. Today, I pray to place integrity, quality and love first.”

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Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Hazelden Foundation

Meditation for the Day “I will pray daily for faith, for it is God's gift. On faith alone depends the answer to my prayers. God gives it to me in response to my prayers, because it is a necessary weapon for me to possess for the overcoming of all adverse conditions and the accomplishment of all good in my life. Therefore, I will work at strengthening my faith. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may so think and live as to feed my faith in God. I pray that my faith may grow because with faith God's power becomes available to me.”