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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Weekly Photo Challenge: Up
I wanted to find a quote for “Up”, this week’s photo challenge before the week got away, and one came via email from: inward/outward: A Project of the Church of the Savior.
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live….
Amidst the meditation of mountains, the humility of flowers wiser than all alphabets–clouds that die constantly for the sake of God’s glory–we are hating, hunting, hurting. Suddenly we feel ashamed of our clashes and complaints in the face of the tacit glory in nature.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, Quest for God
So let us not only look up, but all around us and within.
Our World, Full of God’s Gifts
You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.
– Rabindranath Tagore, The Heart of God
An Added Benefit of Kindness
Kindness does wonderful things to a face.
-Dixie Doyle
Astonishingly Beautiful
To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
-Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Quoted in Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras
Joy and Pain
Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.
– Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom
Expect Hope
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
A Reason to Hope
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Looking for Hope
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
– Barbara Kingslover, High Tide in Tucson
In Times of Darkness, Let Us Make Hope
It seems that there is no end to the evil that confronts us. We need hope to face each day. I found this peace of wisdom from the artist Corita Kent. And I’m sure that when she said/wrote it, it was in beautiful colors on one of her vibrant and colorful serigraphs.
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
– Corita Kent
The Wonders Around Us
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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