Posted on November 18, 2020
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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.– Dante Alighieri This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with… Continue Reading “The Meaningful Journey”
Category: SpiritualityTags: adrian michigan, autumn colors, autumn leaves, autumn trees, dante alighieri, journey, labyrinth, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on June 24, 2018
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Not too long ago I walked a labyrinth for the first time in my life. I had flirted with labyrinths for years, but my expectations were so high that I kept finding reasons not to walk one. I did not want to hurry. I… Continue Reading “Walking a Labyrinth”
Posted on November 20, 2016
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Thanking heaven even for our difficulties and misfortunes is the best way to transform them. You will see your difficulties in a different light, as if you had wrapped them in a film of pure gold. – Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Category: GratefulnessTags: adrian michigan, autumn, autumn colors, autumn trees, fog, gratefulness, gratitude, nature, omraam mikhael aivanhov, photo, photography, quote, trees
Posted on March 29, 2014
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Another morning and I wake with thirst
for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has
given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord, I was never a quick scholar but sulked
and hunched over… Continue Reading “Thirst by Mary Oliver”
Category: LentTags: adrian michigan, ducks, lent, lenten reflection, mary oliver, photo, photography, poem, pond, reeds, thirst
Posted on February 25, 2014
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As I walked down the avenue, the late afternoon sun was turning the lovely and dying sycamore leaves into fragments of brilliant stained glass, and i said to myself, “This alone is worth the price of admission to our broken and glorious world. –… Continue Reading “The Value of Beauty”
Category: BeautyTags: adrian michigan, autumn colors, autumn trees, linda larrson, nature, photo, photography, quote, stained glass window, weber center, window