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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Trusting the Chaos
Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
– Septima Clark
Where Do YOU Find Beauty?
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Wednesday of Hope – Indomitable Expectation
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this above all that is sacred in every being.
– Simone Weil
Beauty in the Walking
But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.
– Gwyn Thomas
Wednesday of Hope – Forgiveness
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
– Lewis B. Smedes
Easter 2019
The world is ending, says the caterpillar! No, it is just beginning, says the butterfly.
– Unknown
Wednesday of Hope – No Mud, No Lotus
It takes mud for the lotus to become itself, and the greater the mud in your life, the greater the lotus blossom.
– Jakusho Kwong, No Beginning, No End
The Color of Life
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
– Joshua Foer
Wednesday of Hope – Facing Our Fears
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
– Rabindranath Tagore
There Is Magic
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
– Loren Eiseley
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