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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
Wednesday of Hope – Restoring Hope
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace. – Pope Francis
Wednesday of Hope – Saving Hope
Because we spill not only milk Knocking it over with an elbow When we reach to wipe a small face But also spill seed on soil we thought was fertile but isn’t, And also spill whole lives, and only later see in fading light… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Saving Hope”
Don’t Depend on What Happens
Joy is the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens. – Br. David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Perspective”
Doorway to Gratitude
Attention is the doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity. – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wednesday of Hope – Infinite Hope
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday of Hope – Forgiving
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. – Lewis B. Smedes
God in Every Place
Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place. – Rabbi Elimelech
Wednesday of Hope – Hovering in Dark Corners
Hope It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills, it explodes in the starry heads of dandelions turned sages, it sticks to the wings of green angels that sail from… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Hovering in Dark Corners”
One Hundred Secrets
If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets. – Attar
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