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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – The Power of Goodness
A good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear. Its consequences saturate the universe and the goodness that happens somewhere, anywhere, helps in the transfiguration of the ugliness.
– Desmond Tutu
Wisdom of the Guest
The Guest
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
You know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go and look around inside.The blue sky opens out further and farther,
The daily sense of failure goes away.
The damage I have done to myself fades.
A million suns come forward with light.
When I sit firmly in that world.–Kabir
Wednesday of Hope – Deep Trust
Deep trust in life is not a feeling but a stance that you deliberately take. It is the attitude we call courage.
– David Steindal-Rast
Doors of Perception
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
– Aldous Huxley
Wednesday of Hope – Take Heart
Courage comes from the French word, Coeur, which means “heart.”
In order to travel from clinging to letting go, we have to “take heart.”
The heart is the seat of the will.
This is the place God awakens,’
the place where the gentle uprooting takes place.– Sue Monk Kidd
Falling in Love with Creation
If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
– Hildegard of Bingen
Wednesday of Hope – To Risk Opening
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom.
– Anais Nin
Touching the Sacred Here and Now
The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence.
– Alma Luz Villanueva
Wednesday of Hope – Joy from the Cliffs of Despair
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Future We Are Creating
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
– John Schaar
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