Category: Spirituality

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

I am convinced that balance is one of the most needed qualities in life. Balance lives somewhere between “Lost in the Details” and “The Devil is In the Details.” 

We Wear the Mask

Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Paul Laurence Dunbar. | We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth… Continue Reading “We Wear the Mask”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

Kissed by the Morning Sun

Our Lady of Lourdes

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, so today I include both a photo from the Basilica at Lourdes, France, and a lovely stanza from the poem, “Our Lady of Lourdes”, by Francesca Brennan. Beneath small Lourdes gray-blue sky Cool February’s airs… Continue Reading “Our Lady of Lourdes”

Photo Challenge: Home

Take more time, cover less ground. – Thomas Merton Dancing in the Waters of Life

What Else Is There?

Lâ ilâha illâ Allâh. (There is nothing other than the One.) -Qur’ân 37:35 and 47:19

Light and Beauty – Light and Salvation

Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 27. The Lord is my light and my salvation. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid? The Lord is my light… Continue Reading “Light and Beauty – Light and Salvation”

Remember All that God Has Done

To find the kingdom is the easiest thing in the world but also the most difficult. Easy because it is all around you and within you, and all you have to do is reach out and take possession of it. Difficult because if you… Continue Reading “Remember All that God Has Done”

Photo Challenge: Unique

Today’s reading from the Letter to the Hebrews is very stirring and encourages us to persevere. Brothers and sisters: Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and… Continue Reading “Photo Challenge: Unique”

Where Is Your Hope?

In today’s Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 31 – we read: Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord. How great is the goodness, O LORD, which you have in store for those who fear you, And which, toward those who take… Continue Reading “Where Is Your Hope?”