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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Awakening to the Sun
O Great Spirit, I awake to another sun, grateful for gifts bestowed, granted one by one.
– Twylah Nitsch
Wakening to Oneness – One Loom
Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.
– Shaker proverb
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Amidst Fear and Loss
When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers. And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss.
– Rebecca Solnit
Be Surprised
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
– Alice Walker
Wakening to Oneness – What Affects One, Affects All
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday of Hope – You Cannot Hold Back Spring
You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.
– Pablo Neruda
Live in the Present
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
– Peace Pilgrim
Wakening to Oneness – Wisdom of Thomas Berry
During these days of physical distancing we’ve had glimpses of our interconnectedness – of our interdependence – of the need for all of us to support the common good of, not only the human family, but of all of our Earth family. So I thought I would begin adding another post, every Friday, entitled, Wakening to Oneness.
May we awaken, one eyelid at a time.
It is my hope that all the children, the children of the deer and the wolf, the whale and other marine forms of life; the children of the osprey and the bluebird and the butterfly; the children of the oak and the pine and the dogwood; the children all together with the human children will go into the future in oneness “as a single sacred community.”
– Thomas Berry
Wednesday of Hope – The Feast of St. Catherine of Siena
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That’s what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
– Neale Donald Walsch, Tomorrow’s God
On this Feast of Catherine, we look back on her life in the 14th century, knowing that she would live differently in the 21st. And so we honor her life and tradition as we, too, desire to be of service to God’s people today . . . in hope for a tomorrow full of promise.
Surrender
Surrender
The boat I travel in is called Surrender.
My two oars are instant forgiveness and gratitude
— complete gratitude for the gift of life.
I am thankful for the experience of this life, for the opportunity to dance.
I get angry, I get mad,
but as soon as I remind myself to put my oars in the water,
I forgive.– Balbir Matbur, Heron Dance Interview (Issue 11)
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