How good it is to celebrate the Spirit of God within us by  quiet acts of adoration and praise; to remind ourselves of all of the ways by which His grace has watered the roots of our being, giving to us manifold strengths, creating miracle after miracle in the midst of the common task and the common way that we take; to respond to the movement of His Spirit in our minds, guiding us into paths of truth where we labor under the necessity to think straight and carefully, to understand the    integrity of the deeds which we perform. It is very good to celebrate the Presence of the Spirit of God in our lives by manifold acts of adoration and praise and quiet thanksgiving. 

We share in the quietness and wide variety of common      concerns. Though our personal needs are tailored to the   measurements of our private lives, these needs, which are so intimately our own, mingle and become one with the needs of all who gather together in this moment. The overarching      demands of the agonies of our times do not leave us           untouched—the   miseries of the children of men as they struggle in various parts of the world for fulfillment and for self-realization, all of those who are cut off from the normal intercourse of their lives by withering illness, and by despair and anguish which somehow cannot be shared—we are not unmindful of the   agonies of our time as the movement of the Spirit of God makes itself articulate in us.