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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Hope / Healing
Thoughts on Hope – 9
It was a chilly, overcast day when the horseman spied the little sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. Reining in his mount, he looked down and inquired of the fragile creature, “Why are you lying upside down like that?”… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 9”
Thoughts on Hope – 6
The case for hope has never rested on provable facts or rational assessment. Hope by its very nature is independent of the apparatus of logic. – Norman Cousins
Thoughts on Hope – 5
And every day, no matter how bitter it be, I will say: “From tomorrow on, I shall be sad.” Not today. – A young Jewish child of the holocaust
Thoughts on Hope – 4
Compassionate actions rarely flow from despair or hopelessness, they are born out of hope. – Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Thoughts on Hope – 3
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, throwing clover. – Wendell Barry “February 2, 1968” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry I believe… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 3”
Thoughts on Hope – 2
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. -Anne Lamott
Thoughts on Hope – 1
On Optimism and Pessimism (as opposed to authentic Hope) An optimist says, in effect, “Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out all right.” A pessimist says, “It’s going down the drain and there’s nothing you can do about it” Both get us off the… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 1”
The Dawn Has Come
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore
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