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Palm Sunday Hope
Hope continues to hold us during Holy Week. Palm Sunday Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. –… Continue Reading “Palm Sunday Hope”
The Promise of Hope
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom, even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. -Sri Chimnoy
Quenching Our Thirst
Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the ”good life” we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. – Sarah Breathnach
Be a Blessing
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. – Joel Osteen
Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
An excellent practice for Lent would be to gain perspective. As Henry David Thoreau said, It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
The Rose Just Is
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones. They are what they are; they exist with God today. There is not time to them. There is simply the rose. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s the Small Things
Attending to the small thing in front of us becomes a way of self-renewal and self-refreshment. – Sharon Salzberg in Lovingkindness
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