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Wisdom from Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson
More on Listening
Learning to listen with the heart moves us from the role of observers and enables us to become participants with the Creator in a world full of grace and possibility. – Elizabeth Canham, Heart Whispers
Lead a Listening Life
Lead a listening life. Order your outward life so that nothing drowns out the listening. – Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
Plunge into God
Plunge into matter. Plunge into God. By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and molds us. We imagine it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact, we live steeped in its burning layers. – Teilhard de… Continue Reading “Plunge into God”
A Prayer for All Lost Sheep
You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don’t get tired of looking for me! I know You won’t. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found. – Thomas Merton, A Book… Continue Reading “A Prayer for All Lost Sheep”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Background
Do you reverence creation? Or is it only background? God might think differently – God would kneel down. I think God might be a little prejudiced. For once He asked me to join Him on a walk through this world, and we gazed… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Background”
What is Prayer?
Prayer is not doing, but being. It is not words but the beyond-words experience of coming into the presence of something much greater than oneself. It is an invitation to recognize holiness, and to utter simple words–“Holy, Holy, Holy”–in response. Attentiveness is all; I… Continue Reading “What is Prayer?”
Gratefulness for the Source of Love
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything [God]has given us…and [God] has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of [God’s] love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from… Continue Reading “Gratefulness for the Source of Love”
Old Inuit Song
I think over again my small adventures my fears those small ones that seemed so big For all the vital things I had to get and to reach And yet there is only one great thing the only thing To live to see… Continue Reading “Old Inuit Song”
Finding the Treasure
Finding the treasure is only the beginning of the search. -Henri Nouwen, from The Inner Voice of Love
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