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Amazing Words from Etty Hillesum
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. – Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
The Power of Gratefulness
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. – David Steindl-Rast in Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
All Souls Day
Every moment and every event of every [person’s] life on earth plants something in [the] soul. – Thomas Merton
Mystery
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
Wisdom from Sylvia Boorstein
I know what Gam su l’tova (This is also for the good) means, I said. It doesn’t mean, “this painful situation is going to end up gratifying.” Sometimes things get better. Sometimes they get worse. Gam zu l’tova means that creation is good and… Continue Reading “Wisdom from Sylvia Boorstein”
Where Does Beauty Take You?
When we come upon beautiful things . . . they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space. – Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
Weekly Photo Challenge: Hue
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Hue”
God – Creator of Unity and Diversity
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? – Martin Buber
Life from Broken Branches and Fallen Leaves
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves and grows out of its own decay, so [people] and nations are bettered and improved by trial and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. – F.W. Robinson
Today is the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa of Avila was a very strong woman who reformed the Carmelite Order, and is one of the three women doctors of the Church, along with Saints Therese of Lisieux (another Carmelite) and Catherine of Siena (a Dominican). For prayer is nothing else… Continue Reading “Today is the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila”
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