Author: Michael Tino

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

When have you had to break a promise so that it did not break you?

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” -Desmond Tutu

Make today about ordinary acts of love and hope.

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How do you make sure you fulfill promises you make?

“What is it
That says you have done well
That asks you to learn more
That brings you to stillness
That holds you up in hard times?

It is relationship
The beating heart of our faith.” -Monica Jacobson-Tennessen, from “The Heart of Our Faith”

What holds you up in hard times?

Covenant / is a promise
between the people / of this faith,
but it is also / a promise / between our self
and our faith, and sometimes, nothing
takes more faith / than staying. -Frances Koziar (CLF), from her poem “When Covenant Breaks”

When have you challenged yourself to have the faith to stay in the face of broken promises?