Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Great Way has no gate;There are a thousand different roads.If you pass through this barrier once,You will walk independently in the universe.– Mumon Kai To learn about Santa Sabina Center’s online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. – Howard Thurman
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~Christopher Reeve
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. – Matsuo Bashō
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. – Maya Angelou
We know them as Three Wise Men, and one thing brought them together over the miles of rough terrain. May our hearts also be One. This is the only way we will find peace. A Story of Some Truly Wise Men By Christine Rodgers… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: One”
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by William F. Bell. Night Thoughts It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs, and not our plenitude. —Mother Teresa Somehow by day, no matter what, I patch myself together whole, But all my effort… Continue Reading “Night Thoughts”
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike. – John Muir
As Epiphany approaches, I offer this prayer: May this holy season be for each of us A time of moving beyond what is “reasonable” And toward the star of wonder; Moving beyond grasping tight to what we have To unclenching our hands and letting… Continue Reading “On the Tenth Day of Christmas”