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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Value of Beauty
As I walked down the avenue, the late afternoon sun was turning the lovely and dying sycamore leaves into fragments of brilliant stained glass, and i said to myself, “This alone is worth the price of admission to our broken and glorious world.
– Linda Larsson
Prayer Is Energy
Prayer is energy, the energy of love and transformative power. It is given to us to use for the good of all creation. In prayer God gives us the fuel of life, and asks us to live it.
Margaret Silf in The Gift of Prayer
What is Your Image of God?
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love [God] as they love their cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love [God] for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind. however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
– Meister Eckhart
Finding the Ideal
The most ideal landscape is the one that is.
– Lynn Crawford
Wisdom from Hildegard
I welcome every creature of the world with grace
– Hildegard of Bingen
Let Us Cultivate Joy in Our Lives
From joy springs all creation
By it is sustained
Towards joy it proceeds
And to joy it returns.– Mundaka Upanishad in The Nine Muses by Angeles Arrien
Let Us Be Healed by Awe
Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.
– Rumi
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
– Matthew 6:20-22
Where WAS your treasure?
What is the Value in Creation?
I cannot look in any direction without seeing creations of God. Therefore nothing is insignificant, and everything worthy of respect and care. Nothing is second-class. What God has made is of value.
– Paula D’Arcy in Gift of the Red Bird
You Are Destined to Fly
You are destined to fly, but that cocoon has got to go.
– Nelle Morton
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