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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
Wednesday of Hope – Hope in the Dark
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and. work: you don’t give up. – Anne Lamott
What Is Life?
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset. – Crowfoot, a leader of… Continue Reading “What Is Life?”
Wednesday of Hope – Resilience, Resistance, Tenacity
Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Resilience, Resistance, Tenacity”
Music Gives Wings
Music…gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. – Plato
Wednesday of Hope – I Do the Dance – I Must
Part of the Symphony I serve. I do the dance I must. I plant trees, but I am not the doer of this work. I am the facilitator, the instrument—I am one part of the symphony. I know there is an overall scheme to… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – I Do the Dance – I Must”
Acting Compassionately Naturally
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. – Rachel Naomi Remen
Wednesday of Hope – Today’s Potential
We have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but today is overflowing with potential. – Allan Lokos, Through the Flames
The Blessing that Flows through Everything
The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything we touch, the more our own touch will bring blessing. – David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart
Wednesday of Hope – A Bridge or Plank to Hope
When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious. -Hungarian Proverb
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