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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Choosing Gratitude
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.
- Henri Nouwen
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Complete Prayer
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Seasons of Our Lives
Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.
- Katherine May
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The Velvet Red Maple
They say life is a cruel thing, but they haven’t seen the velvet red maple tree in my front yard with the wind in its hair and all the leaves dancing.
- Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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Autumn Beauty
On a bare branch
a crow settles
in autumn dusk
- Basho
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My Favorite Season
Autumn is my favorite season. The flush of red and gold a brief reminder that everything is sweeter when we know it cannot last.
- Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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Contemplate Beauty
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
- Rachel Carson
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Without Trees
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
- Richard Mabey
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Our Origins
Our origins are of the Earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.
- Rachel Carson
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Alive Poems
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
- Joy Harjo
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