Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Happy New Year!! May we continue in Hope. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Hope in the New Year”
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. – Ecclesiastes 2:13
God is always doing something more. Incomprehensible holy mystery is always giving more, revealing more, communicating more. The only limit to that giving has been creation’s capacity to receive. Judy Cannato, Field of Compassion
This is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw–and knew I saw–all things in God and God in all things. – Mechtild of Magdeburg
I know these are scary, uncertain, hurtful times, but I really wish people would stop talking about what a trash fire the world is. Our world is a wounded relative, not a hopeless ruin, and we’re called to help heal the injuries we’ve inflicted … Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – It Is Time for Healing”
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. – Howard Thurman
life is a garden, not a road we enter and exit through the same gate wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice – Bokonon