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Category: Spirituality
Wednesday of Hope – Seeds of Love
Every farmer who plants a seed takes a risk. We work through faith that the good deeds we do are to put down roots. The roots are invisible, but they sustain plants that may not give fruit for a while. How lovely is this… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Seeds of Love”
Welcome the Present Moment
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we have. – Pema Chodron
Wakening to Oneness – Life Abounds
Life abounds in all variety of resources and resourcefulness. Every moment is a divine encounter, every facet is an exposure to the boundless energies by which life is sustained and our spirits made whole. – Howard Thurman
Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things
When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things”
Wisdom of Thoreau
I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get… Continue Reading “Wisdom of Thoreau”
Wakening to Oneness – We Are God Sparks!
All living beings are, so to speak, sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance. These sparks mere from God like rays of the sun. – Hildegard of Bingen
Wednesday of Hope – Quiet Courage
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
Wakening to Oneness – The Drop Is the Ocean
We feel like separate water droplets but we are also ocean. – Jane Hirshfield
Wednesday of Hope – Do Not Be Dismayed
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended, Not with time, as they say, but with intention, So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Do Not Be Dismayed”
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