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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Gifts of a Grateful Soul
A lack of a daily tonic of gratitude results in an anemic soul, which, in turn, contributes to a physical sense of listlessness. A grateful soul, on the other hand, is vibrant and animated and so permeates your body with zest and with an enjoyment of a life littered with gifts.
– Edward Hays
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On What Is Our Hope Based?
Above all, hope is based on relationships, on a collaborative connection with people as well as a higher power.
– Louise Danielle Palmer
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Why Is This a Wonderful Day?
This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.
– Maya Angelou
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The First Step
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Beauty
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
– David Steindl-Rast
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Change
All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.
– Octavia E. Butler
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Hello, Sun in my Face!
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
– Mary Oliver
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Let Us Change I for We
As Malcolm X put it, “When we change the ‘I’ for the ‘We,’ even Illness becomes Wellness.”
– Joanna Macy
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There Is Always Beauty
I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
– Anne Frank
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The End Is Where We Start
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
– T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
Starting today, January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center offers an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
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