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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
Gratitude is Twofold
Gratitude is twofold – love coming to visit us and love running out to greet a welcome guest. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Touching Heaven
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Choosing Gratitude
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a… Continue Reading “Choosing Gratitude”
Complete Prayer
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Seasons of Our Lives
Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Seasons of Our Lives”
The Velvet Red Maple
They say life is a cruel thing, but they haven’t seen the velvet red maple tree in my front yard with the wind in its hair and all the leaves dancing. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “The Velvet Red Maple”
Autumn Beauty
On a bare brancha crow settlesin autumn dusk To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
My Favorite Season
Autumn is my favorite season. The flush of red and gold a brief reminder that everything is sweeter when we know it cannot last. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Finding Joy
I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see… Continue Reading “Finding Joy”
Wisdom of Heraclitus
Wisdom is the Oneness of Mind that guides and permeates all things. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
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