Ride the WavesReflections by Steve L.

A Wave

July 6, 2025

“There is a God and I’m not it!”

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

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Daily Meditations: An Imperfect Messenger

Richard Rohr

The prophet Jonah thought he had the exclusive cachet of truth, and thus could despise those to whom he was preaching. He wanted them to be wrong so that he could be right. Like Jonah, I’ve also struggled with many unresolved questions and painful paradoxes in my life. As I open my heart into God’s unfathomable grace, the world of predictable good guys and bad guys collapses. Everyone deserves The God of Love & Grace; who am I to be the judge and hold resentment?

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The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living

Thomas Keating

Our concept of how God is present in us is usually vague and primitive. The spiritual journey is a gradual process of enlarging our emotional, mental, and physical relationship with the divine reality that is present in us, but not ordinarily accessible to our emotions or concepts. The fundamental principle of the spiritual journey is the Divine Indwelling.

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Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Hazelden Foundation

Meditation for the Day "You can do practically anything in the field of human relationships. As you grow spiritually, a feeling of being plentifully supplied by God's strength will possess you, and you will be able to accomplish many useful things. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may claim God's supply of strength by my faith in Him. I pray that it shall be given to me according to my faith.”