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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Take Your Time Today
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu
Wakening to Oneness – The Drop Is the Ocean
We feel like separate water droplets but we are also ocean.
– Jane Hirshfield
Wednesday of Hope – Do Not Be Dismayed
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended,
Not with time, as they say, but with intention,
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.– L.R. Knost
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
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