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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
What Is the Future We Are Creating?
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
– John Schaar
Wednesday of Hope – Wendell Berry’s Wisdom
When despair for the world grows in me,
And I wake in the night in fear . . .
I go and lie down where the wood drake
Rests in beauty on the water,
And the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their light.
I rest in the grace of the world and am free.
– Wendell Berry
The Best Seeds to Plant
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.
– Ma Jaya Sati
Wednesday of Hope – Dwelling in Possibility
I dwell in possibility.
– Emily Dickinson
Where Do You Tell Your Secrets?
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Wednesday of Hope – Go Forward with Hope
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
– Jesse Jackson
Beauty is a Deep Opening
When we come upon beautiful things, they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
– Elaine Scary
Wednesday of Hope – Look to This Day
Look to this day
for it is life
the very life of life.In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the splendor of action
the glory of power.For yesterday is but a memory
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore, to this day….
~ ancient Sanskrit poem ~
God in All Things
Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.
– Richard Rohr
Wednesday of Hope – Restoring Hope
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
– Pope Francis
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