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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wakening to Oneness – Invisible Bonds
Things are united by invisible bonds. You cannot pick a flower without troubling a star.
– Galileo Galilei
Wednesday of Hope – Seeds of Love
Every farmer who plants a seed takes a risk. We work through faith that the good deeds we do are to put down roots. The roots are invisible, but they sustain plants that may not give fruit for a while. How lovely is this planting the seeds of love.
– Omid Safi
Welcome the Present Moment
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we have.
– Pema Chodron
Wakening to Oneness – Life Abounds
Life abounds in all variety of resources and resourcefulness. Every moment is a divine encounter, every facet is an exposure to the boundless energies by which life is sustained and our spirits made whole.
– Howard Thurman
Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things
When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
– Wendell Berry, “The Peace of the Wild Things”
Wisdom of Thoreau
I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there. Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?
– Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry 1841
Wakening to Oneness – We Are God Sparks!
All living beings are, so to speak, sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance. These sparks mere from God like rays of the sun.
– Hildegard of Bingen
Wednesday of Hope – Quiet Courage
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
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
