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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Fill Yourself with Hope
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
– Barack Obama
This is a pre-covid19 image, and right now our best way of doing something is to NOT go out and throw frisbees with others. Instead, let us hold those in prayer who are serving us in so many essential ways.
Blessings of hope to all, Pat Farrell
We Are Connected
We are all leaves on different branches of the same tree.
– Laura Lynne Jackson
Wednesday of Hope – You are the Sky
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
– Pema Chodron
No Strangers
In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.
– Kobayashi Issa
Wednesday of Hope – Always Dream
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
– Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Seeing God in All Things
Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.
– Richard Rohr
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
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