Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul. Joan D. Chittister More Quotes by Joan D. Chittister More Quotes From Joan D. Chittister In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world. Joan D. Chittister unfinished-work dream lying In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given. Joan D. Chittister creating done giving Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need. Joan D. Chittister ghetto spiritual running Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought of doing had the sun come out as usual. In which case, thank God for the rain. Joan D. Chittister play rain art Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. Joan D. Chittister prophet cry long
