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The Mystery of Gratitude
Ironically, gratitude’s most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Don’t Take the Easy Way
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Maya Angelou
Wednesday of Hope – Hope in a Caterpillar
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Margaret Fuller
As We Enter this New Year
As we enter this New Year, let us be open – with joy – to the mystery of how our lives will unfold. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Margaret Fuller
Everything is Resurrection
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. – Voltaire
What Is God Saying?
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson During this season of Lent, let us be attentive to the love letters that God is writing to us.
Where Do We Find Holiness?
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. -Terry Tempest Williams from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)
Nature’s Equilibrium
Nature is evenly balanced. We cannot disturb her equilibrium, for we know that the law of Cause and Effect is the unerring and inexorable law of nature; but we do fail to find our own equilibrium as nations and as individuals, because we have… Continue Reading “Nature’s Equilibrium”
How Will You Choose to Live?
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein How will you choose to live?
