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Category: Spirituality
Weekly Photo Challenge – Resolved
At this time of making resolutions for the new year, let us remember that every effort counts. People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge – Resolved”
The Beautiful San Francisco Bay
Today is the last day of the Church Year, since tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent. Our Psalm today is Psalm 95, and we read: For the Lord is a great God, and a great ruler above all gods; In God’s hands are… Continue Reading “The Beautiful San Francisco Bay”
The Last Thankful Post from November
Gratitude is welcome in every season, but as we see out the month of November, here is one more “grateful” quote. Gratitude is heaven itself. – William Blake
All Creation Rejoices!
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 96. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound; let the plains be joyful and all that is in them! Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.
Rejoicing in Creation
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 24. The Lord’s are the earth and its fullnes; the world and those who dwell in it. For God founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. That pretty much covers everything!
How to Find Peace
According to Brother David Steindl-Rast, We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful”
Happy Thanksgiving
We don’t need a lot of words when we talk with God. As Meister Eckhart, the Dominican mystic said, If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough
Gratitude and Divine Sparks
When we say “Grace” before we eat our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, let us remember the words of Rabbi Herschel: By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food.
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