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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 5
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this above all that is sacred in every human life.
– Simone Weil
How to Find Contentment
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
– Lao Tzu
Wednesday of Hope . . . 4
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
– Lin Yutang
The Grateful Heart
As the colder and darker days of Advent arrive, let us enter them with joy and anticipation.
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Laighton Thaxter
Happy Thanksgiving – 2016
Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.
– Edward Hays, A Book of Wonders
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 3
As we face the grand ecological crisis of our time, our most important renewable resource is hope. We simply must put it on with our shoes each morning.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Thank Heavens for . . .
Thanking heaven even for our difficulties and misfortunes is the best way to transform them. You will see your difficulties in a different light, as if you had wrapped them in a film of pure gold.
– Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Wednesday of Hope . . . 2
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
The Greatest Gift
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
– David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
Wednesday’s Child Is Full of . . . Hope
The theme for the month of November (on Sundays) is still Gratitude. But for this particular Wednesday, I’ve decided we need a change in the words of the nursery rhyme. I’m going to squeeze a little hope in alongside gratitude. Don’t you think they’ll do well together???
Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full ofwoehope,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.[1]
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