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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Look Deeply
When we look deeply at a flower, we can see the whole cosmos contained in it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Youth of April
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
— William Shakespeare
Unlocking Flowers
“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
— Bishop Reginald Heber
Laughter
The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
April Flowers
“April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.”
— Sara Coleridge
What Makes Flowers Beautiful
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light, and that makes them beautiful.”
— Jim Carrey
Where Does Hope Bloom?
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
Rewriting Genesis
“Every April, God rewrites the book of Genesis.”
— Unknown
Brevity
We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.
- Louise Erdrich
Wisdom of Wendell Berry
I go among the trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
- Wendell Berry, Sabbaths
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