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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Take Your Time Today
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu
Wakening to Oneness – The Drop Is the Ocean
We feel like separate water droplets but we are also ocean.
– Jane Hirshfield
Wednesday of Hope – Do Not Be Dismayed
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended,
Not with time, as they say, but with intention,
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.– L.R. Knost
Awakening to the Sun
O Great Spirit, I awake to another sun, grateful for gifts bestowed, granted one by one.
– Twylah Nitsch
Wakening to Oneness – One Loom
Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.
– Shaker proverb
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Amidst Fear and Loss
When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers. And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss.
– Rebecca Solnit
Be Surprised
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
– Alice Walker
