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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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What Do We Need?
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more… Continue Reading “What Do We Need?”
Present in All Directions
When you are present in your own life it extends infinitely in every direction.
To Be Alive
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
The Proper Place of Peace
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Shaping the Mind
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Wisdom of Mark Twain
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark Twain
The Blessed Mountains
These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be . . . . the whole body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the… Continue Reading “The Blessed Mountains”
Planetary Peace
“If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when we rely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is possible.”
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