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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Courage of the Fragile Blossom
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
– Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Participating in Divinity
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, “Ah,” you are participating in divinity.
Joseph Campbell, Ancient Hindu Text
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Reborn
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Every Morning New
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
– Paul Brunton
Wednesday of Hope – Look for the Light
There is light in the darkness. You just have to find it.
– bell hooks
Merry Christmas – 2019
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.
– Hans Christian Andersen
Wednesday of Hope – The Light Always Returns
There is a perfectly still moment right before dawn, when the sun gathers itself and then steps into the dark world and everything is so filled with light that any doubts from that long night are barely a memory. It is the way of all things that the night ends and the light returns. The light always returns.
– Brian Andreas, Story People
Salvation Happens
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
– Barbara Brown Taylor
Wednesday of Hope – Darkest before Dawn
On this Feast of St. Lucy, whose name means Light – celebrated in the darkest days in the Northern Hemisphere, I’ve chosen this quote for those times we find ourselves in darkness, no matter the time of year or the hemisphere.
We must believe it is darkest before the dawn of a new world. We will see it when we believe it.
– Saul Alinsky
All is Alive
The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power.
– Henry Crow Dog
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