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Tag: Beauty
The Heavens Proclaim God’s Justice
To all my readers: I am trying a new Theme, one that changes color with each picture. I am happy to hear your comments regarding this change of theme . . . whether or not I should keep it or go back to the… Continue Reading “The Heavens Proclaim God’s Justice”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons
Let Us Catch the Changing Seasons It is a spectacular thing when cacti blossom! The flowers have a way of overshadowing the cactus, and in the stark landscape of the desert, we can be overcome by their beauty. It is wonderful to catch the… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons”
Rejoicing in Creation
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 24. The Lord’s are the earth and its fullnes; the world and those who dwell in it. For God founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. That pretty much covers everything!
May We All Become Lovers
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. Shantideva, 8th century
What Is Your Heart’s Desire . . . Your Heart’s Delight?
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 37. I’m pretty sure I’ve shared this before, but verses 4 and 5 have always spoken to me about something that is key in discerning what God is calling us to. We need to listen to our hearts.… Continue Reading “What Is Your Heart’s Desire . . . Your Heart’s Delight?”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal
I love the poetry of Wendell Barry; he is a man of hope. The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal”
More on Prayer
What is real prayer? Praise to God. And the meaning of prayer? Appreciating; thus opening the heart more and more to the Divine beauty on sees in manifestation. -Pir_O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki
Kindness . . . Foundational to All Spiritual Traditions
The Buddha sad, If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind. So very similar to Paul’s words in his letter to the Ephesians: Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in… Continue Reading “Kindness . . . Foundational to All Spiritual Traditions”
If You Were Healed of Blindness . . .
If you were healed of blindness, what would you be amazed by? We read in Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark 10:46-52 As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On… Continue Reading “If You Were Healed of Blindness . . .”
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