Kirk's Place in Point Lonsdale, Victoria | Community organisation

Kirk's Place

Locality: Point Lonsdale, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5258 2854

Address: Corner Kirk Road and Winterley Road 3225 Point Lonsdale, VIC, Australia

Website: http://unitingqueenscliff.org.au

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25.01.2022 Daily reflection: 10 September History moves in contradictory waves, Lois Beck wrote, not in straight lines. As happens with pebbles in water, it is the push and pull of the undercurrent of our lives that smooth us out and wear us down to our real selves. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

25.01.2022 Daily reflection: 3 September Life is never lived in a straight line. We pitch and toss, revolve and reverse until the inside of us finally squares with the outside of us. Then we discover what we have been looking for all the time and couldnt find because it was within us. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

24.01.2022 Daily reflection: 18 September God gives us the land of ourselves to plant and grow, to develop and enjoy, to tend and complete. It is not what life has been for us in the past that counts; it is what we are harvesting from it now that is really important. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

23.01.2022 Daily reflection: 23 August We have in the silence of ourselves only what we have ourselves put there. The challenge of every noisy hour is to fill our thoughts with beauty and good. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

23.01.2022 Daily reflection: 30 August Solitude and silence are those places where the creative fountains flow. To be without these two dimensions of the self is to doom myself to the role of only a copy artist forever because, never able to hear the new things within myself, I can only repeat everybody else. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

23.01.2022 Daily reflection: November 24: There are worse things than emotional immaturity. There is such a thing as dearth of soul that comes with trying to find the fullness of life outside ourselves rather than by developing the fullness of life within us. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

22.01.2022 Daily reflection: 25 September When people are in dire straits, situations not of their own making, hope comes to make them discontented. It is that sacred discontent that brings the birthright to fulfillment. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

21.01.2022 Daily reflection: 23 September If the present of some people is made up of the barely survivable, someone is responsible. And its not God. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

20.01.2022 Daily reflection: 25 August To learn the fruits of silence it is necessary to be silent. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

19.01.2022 Daily reflection: 6 September The trouble with getting older is that you discover what you missed along the way. The beauty of getting older is that you discover that you havent missed anything at all. You just failed to value it. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

18.01.2022 Daily reflection: 17 September My birthright is born again every day in me. It is those parts of myself that no one can take away from me and that are developing in me yet. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

17.01.2022 Daily reflection: 16 September The past does not predict the future, but it often explains it. So much of what we do in life comes from what we were expected to do or wanted to escape. Learning to appreciate the best of the present is the only antidote. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

16.01.2022 Daily reflection: November 23: Piers Paul Reed said, Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. But God, who never gives up on us, wants us to make sure that we never give up on ourselves either. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

16.01.2022 Daily reflection: 2 September All the elements of life conspire to make us great. The only thing we need to do is to embrace them. Instead, we spend so much energy bemoaning what we arent instead of learning to love who we are. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

15.01.2022 Daily reflection: 27 August Learning to be alone is the best way to learn silence. Then we have only ourselves for company and a chance to find out if that is good company or not. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

14.01.2022 Daily reflection: November 26: There are some things that can be learned only by sin. The history of sainthood is a history of sin: Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Charles de Foucauld all struggled their way to God as we do. Only when, like them, we discover the depths of our own neediness can we begin to discover our strengths and God’s mercy. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

13.01.2022 Daily reflection: 26 August If we really want to know who and what we are, the only way to do it is to listen to ourselves in silence. It can leave us with an agenda for a lifetime. It can also take away the stories we spin to ourselves about why we really do what we do. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: 8 September When we find ourselves living largely either in the past or in the future, we know that life has gone askew. Then its time to make the best of where we are if we want anything better to happen as time goes by. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: 11 September When God gives us life, God gives us everything we need to sustain it. The components may look strange at the outset, but hindsight is a wonderful optic. The trick is to trust it before you can see it. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: November 22: When people steal and lie and wallow in excesses, bask in sloth and feed their lusts, we call it sin. When corporations do it we call it good business and success, the art of the deal, and Third World wage scales. Interesting, isn’t it? (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: 5 September Life is not handed to us whole. All we get of it is the pieces. The shaping of it is up to us. And it is a slow, slow process. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: 24 August Silence is what enables us to discover our questions as well as our answers. Otherwise we are doomed to drown out the very best in ourselves. No wonder we never get anywhere in life. We never listen to the thoughts in us that would take us there. Then at the end of life we say, I always wanted to and I should have listened to that urge. What is more pathetic than the unfinished life? (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

12.01.2022 Daily reflection: 28 August When we are alone, in silence, we discover what it is that we really want to do, what it is that were really afraid of, what it is that speaks of God in us. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

11.01.2022 Daily reflection: 7 September Life is a complex of past experiences, future opportunities, and present options. It is the past we try to forget, and it is the future that we strive for. But it is the present, where experience and opportunity come together, that we are most inclined to miss. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

10.01.2022 Daily reflection: 14 September Gretel Ehrlich wrote, History is a story that changes and has accidents and recovers with scars. We all bear the scars of the past, true. Scars simply prove that we were there. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

09.01.2022 Daily reflection: 22 September A lot of people go to the best schools, have the best connections, make the best career moves - and are never heard from again. Or as the German proverb says, Noble and common blood is of the same colour. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

08.01.2022 Daily reflection: 19 September We get trapped in what we have been and bog down there. Ridiculed as a child, I still feel ridiculous. Rejected as a child, I still feel unaccepted. But Mary Antin writes, It is not that I belong to the past but that the past belongs to me. Its the character to turn ridicule and rejection into courage that counts. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

08.01.2022 Daily reflection: November 25: The value of sin is to learn forgiveness: how to get it and how to give it as well. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

08.01.2022 Daily reflection: 18 August They say that extroverts need to talk in order to think and that introverts talk only after they have thought a thing out. Maybe, but the interesting thing is when extroverts dont say what theyre thinking and introverts do. Then we have conversation. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

08.01.2022 Daily reflection: 15 September Not all scars are ugly. Scars speak, too, of survival and learning and wisdom and hope. In fact, life without scars may be no life at all. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

08.01.2022 Daily reflection: 24 September Hope is made of discontent. What drives birthright is hope. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

07.01.2022 Daily reflection: 21 September Sometimes a person has to go back, really back, Paule Marshall wrote, to have a sense, an understanding of all thats gone to make them before they can go forward. When we get stuck in the past, we forget that we are obliterating the present. Its not what happened yesterday that matters. Its what we do today that makes the difference in the self. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

06.01.2022 Daily reflection: 29 August Where is God? If God is in creation, then the answer must be that God is in the centre of the self. Where else? How long has it been since I was there? (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

06.01.2022 Daily reflection: 20 September Everyone is given something to develop - a mind, a child, a talent, a piece of land, an idea. When were not developing whatever it is, we are not developing ourselves. Then the birthright goes to dust. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

05.01.2022 Daily reflection: 1 September Joan Chittister introduces the reflections for September in this way, Everybody gets a birthright. Most of us either dont recognise it or dont want it. And that makes all the difference. She concludes, The question is, what have you done with your birthright? The truth is that a birthright is simply what we make of it. Good event, bad event. Who knows? September 1: Life is a series of circumstances, all of which lead to the fulfillment of the self. The fact that we resist or reject so many of them only slows the process. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

05.01.2022 Daily reflection: 21 August Silence is a calming thing. It hurries us nowhere and leaves us only with ourselves. Theres the question: Is that good company for you yet or not? (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

04.01.2022 Daily reflection: 12 September Dont give up on life before life gives up on you. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

04.01.2022 Daily reflection: 21 August A day of silence is a new experience for many of us in this wired world of ours. How sad. That means that we are hardly ever just where we are anymore. We always live with a foot in two worlds: where I really am now and where my stimulation is coming from outside myself. Who am I now? is the kind of question that gets easily lost in an environment like that. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

03.01.2022 Daily reflection: 19 August We are all full of the riches of a lifetime - the experiences weve had and the wisdom that has come from them; the dreams weve had and the things that obstructed them; the hurts weve had and the things that cured them. I was never less alone, Edward Gibbon wrote, than when I was by myself. What is important is that we give ourselves time to think all those things through. Then the rest of life will be richer. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

03.01.2022 Daily reflection: 31 August A policeman pulled a car over and told the driver he had won $5,000 in the seat belt competition just by being the five thousandth person to drive over the traffic counter wearing one. What are you going to do with the money? asked the policeman. Well, I guess Im going to get a drivers licence, he answered. Oh, dont listen to him, said a woman in the passenger seat, hes a smart aleck when hes drunk. Then the guy in the back seat said, I knew we wouldnt get far in a stolen car. At that moment there was a knock from the boot and a voice said, Are we over the border yet? As I was saying about silence.... (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

03.01.2022 Daily reflection: 20 August Coming to understand ourselves takes a lot of silence. Maybe that is why so few do. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

03.01.2022 Daily reflection: 17 August If you want to think, you have to stop talking long enough to know what you thought. (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")

02.01.2022 Daily reflection: 4 September The Zen master says, If Enlightenment is not where you are standing, where will you look? (Joan Chittister, "Living Well")