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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Reality is Flooded with the Divine
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.
– Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics
We Belong to the Maker of the Stars and Starfish
Oh, I am in awe of the maker of galaxies and geese, stars and starfish, mercury and men (male and female) . . . . Sometimes it is the humble awe of knowing that ultimately I belong to God, to the Maker whose thumb print is on each one of us. And that is blessing.
Madeleine L’Engle
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
Bloom with abandon!
Living on Surprise
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
– Alice Walker
Helen Keller on Pessimism
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
– Helen Keller
Look at the Moon
When you look at the moon, you think, “I’m really small. What are my problems?” It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the moon a bit more often.
– Alain de Botton
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
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