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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The World Needs Appreciation
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
– Michael Josephson
Wednesday of Hope – Embracing our Difficulties
Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficulties of the world.
– David Steindl-Rast
The Portal of Gratitude
Gratefulness is a portal through which life gazes at itself.
– Tim Roberts
Wednesday of Hope – Hope through Appreciation
When we release expectation and experience appreciation, all the moments of our lives become openings and opportunities.
– Kristi Nelson
Gratitude – the Fairest Blossom
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Wednesday of Hope – Hope that Leads Us to Dance
We did not ask for this room or this music; we were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces toward the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty…We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.
– Stephen King
Greeting the Morning with Gratitude
As has been my custom in these blog posts, all of the posts focus on gratitude, for as the Dominican mystic Meister Eckhart once said, “If the only prayer you ever say it ‘Thank you,’ that will be enough.
First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet all of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: “I am grateful for your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!” At this very moment, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you energy for the entire day.
– Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, Prosveta Publishing
Wednesday of Hope – Pessimist? Optimist? Realist?
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
– William A. Ward
Why the Sun Shines
As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others!
– The Upanishads
Wednesday of Hope – Where Hope Lives
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
– Rebecca Solnit
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