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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Hope / Healing
Wednesday of Hope – Crumple Up Your Faith
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. – Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
Wednesday of Hope – Opportunities
There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments. – Wangari Maathai
Wednesday of Hope – Active Hope
Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. – Joanna Macy
Wednesday of Hope – Hope in the New Year
Happy New Year!! May we continue in Hope. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Hope in the New Year”
Wednesday of Hope – Our Greatest Hope
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. – Ecclesiastes 2:13
Wednesday of Hope – Don’t Be Afraid
This is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
Wednesday of Hope – It Is Time for Healing
I know these are scary, uncertain, hurtful times, but I really wish people would stop talking about what a trash fire the world is. Our world is a wounded relative, not a hopeless ruin, and we’re called to help heal the injuries we’ve inflicted … Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – It Is Time for Healing”
Wednesday of Hope – Finding Hope in the Stillness
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. – Howard Thurman
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