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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Nature’s Repair
“There I feel that nothing can befall me in life – no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Encountering God
“People encounter God under shady oak trees, on riverbanks, at the tops of mountains, and in long stretches of barren wilderness. God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers. When people want to know more about God, the son of God tells them to pay attention to the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, to women kneading bread and workers lining up for their pay. Whoever wrote this stuff believed that people could learn as much about the ways of God from paying attention to the world as they could from paying attention to scripture. What is true is what happens, even if what happens is not always right. People can learn as much about the ways of God from business deals gone bad or sparrows falling to the ground as they can from reciting the books of the Bible in order. They can learn as much from a love affair or a wildflower as they can from knowing the Ten Commandments by heart.”
- Barbara Brown Taylor
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The Grand Show
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round Earth rolls
- John Muir
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Meandering Life
“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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Nothing Is Wasted
“When petals of the hen get really old, they sag like droopy bloomers, much redder, rust instead of rose. And they eventually fall to the ground and become part of the mulch. This fills me with hope – their return to earth, their recirculation. Nothing is wasted.”
- Anne Lamott
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Universe Dancing inside Us
“We all have moments in which we are jolted out of our habitual anxiety, when we surrender control and let go of self-conscious judgments in those moments we can just “be.” We can feel refreshingly open, clear, and complete. Our mental clutter and confusions fall away, and we remember with great joy our oneness with all that is. At such moments the whole universe dances inside us.”
- Marcia Prager, The Path of Blessing
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Pay Attention
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
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Beautiful Harvest
“{Beauty is the harvest of presence.”
- David Whyte
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Everywhere Is Walking Distance
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
- Steven Wright
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Faith
“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.”
- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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