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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Where Are You Going?
If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
John Muir’s Wisdom
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
– John Muir
How Do We Find the Path?
A path is made by walking on it.
– Zhuangzi
Never Give Up Dreaming
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-C. S. Lewis
Loving Even the Storm
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
―Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Tetons – Crammed with God’s Beauty
This is one of my favorite quotes from poetry:
Earth’s crammed with heaven
And every common bush
Afire with God
But only he who sees,
Takes off his shoes.
The rest sit round it,
And pluck blackberries.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let Us Recognize All of God’s Creation
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
– May Angelou
Created so that We May Rejoice
I am settling into my new home after driving through some of the most beautiful places in the world. It is time to return to my blog, OPreach. But since I haven’t found my stride ye, and have a few trips on the horizon, I plan to post only once a week for a while – every Tuesday or Monday. Of course if some irresistible creative thought occurs to me, I may make an “extra” post now and again.
For now I would like to share some of the beauty I have experienced along the way.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
― John Calvin
So Much Has Been Given Me
Because I will be traveling cross-country, on my way to my new home in River Forest, Illinois, I am taking a break from OPreach for the month of August.
The Wisdom of Experience
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
– Aldous Huxley
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