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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Don’t Stop Dreaming
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
Plant Trees
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
– A. Whitney Brown, Wall at bookstore – Chicago Botanic Gardens
Wednesday of Hope – the Winds Will Carry You
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
– C. JoyBell C.
The Primordial Sacrament
The created world is the primordial sacrament.
– Elizabeth Johnson
Wednesday of Hope – In a World Full of Peril
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Not Made in the Shade
Flowers are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling
Wednesday of Hope – I Believe that People Are Good
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Crew in hazmat suits cleaning up after oil spill
What Is Enough?
Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough?
– Kent Neburn
Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.– Langston Hughes
Planting and Reaping
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
– Meister Eckhart
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