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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Gallery – Sunrise/Sunset
Wednesday of Hope – Defeat is Temporary
During the month of August, I will be posting images from my recent cross country trip, which took me from Chicago to San Francisco, and back. I hope you will enjoy both the images and the reflections.
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
– Marilyn vos Savant
My friend, Patty Riley, OP, is walking on the Bonneville Flats in Utah – with ease. When the settlers crossed over through Utah into Nevada, and then on to California on the Emigrant or California Trail, they surely didn’t walk with such ease. Consider the Donner Party. Nonetheless, these emigrants did not give up on their dreams.
Do we have the same stamina? Or do we too readily give up?
Gallery – Mountains
A Serious Thing
It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.
– Mary Oliver
Wednesday of Hope – Rainbows
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
~Maya Angelou
Walk Out of Your House like a Shepherd
Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Wednesday of Hope – Anything Is Possible
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
~Christopher Reeve
Perceiving Life with Reverence
If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.
– Gary Zukav
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
See the World
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
– Ray Bradbury
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