February 4, 2025
Today is the fourth of our daily reflections for Interfaith Harmony Week. (If you missed any of the other days, you can find them in the blog section of our website, interfaithpeaceproject.org .) The Interfaith Peace Project is pleased to offer you these reflections for each day of Interfaith Harmony Week, February 1-7, 2025.
Thomas P. Bonacci, C.P
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LOOK TO THE GROWING EDGE
INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
Day Four
by Thomas P. Bonacci, C.P.

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Reflection
All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born; all around us life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a time when there shall be new lives, fresh blossoms, green fruit. Such is the growing edge! It is the extra breath from the exhausted lung, the one more thing to try when all else has failed, the upward reach of life when weariness closes in upon all endeavor. This is the basis of hope in moments of despair, the incentive to carry on when times are out of joint and (people) have lost their reason, the source of confidence when worlds crash and dreams whiten into ash. The birth of a child — life’s most dramatic answer to death — this is the growing edge incarnate. Look well to the growing edge!
Howard Thurman
The Growing Edge – Sermon February 1949
Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, San Francisco, CA
Wisdom
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles
and can bear the bright light of day.
Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
Your integrity determines your destiny.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month.
It is created little by little, day by day.
Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus 500 BCE
Response
Each and every one of us can be the “growing edge” in the world. Today I will be a person of hope as I strive to practice understanding and empathy in all the affairs of my life.
I commit to studying, reading, exploring and delighting in what is good, true, and beautiful.
I will nurture my soul so I might rejoice in the wisdom I discover in the world around me.
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