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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
What Makes Flowers Beautiful
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light, and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey
Brevity
We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”
Wisdom of Wendell Berry
I go among the trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks lie in their placeswhere I left them, asleep like cattle.
Your Soul Is Alive
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
The State of Wonder
When we enter a state of wonder, an opening is created; a possibility arises for us to view the world differently and to come to a different understanding.
What Do We See?
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
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