Tag: nature

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

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

Dewdrops Outside My Door

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door. – Rabindranath Tagore

Let’s Start Something by Being Grateful

Perpetual gratitude toward people around us initiates habits of thankful prayer. It also starts a chain reaction of giving thanks, till our friends and loved ones and our whole world become imbued in grateful living. – Edward Hays

Wisdom of Catherine of Siena

All the way to heaven is heaven. – Catherine of Siena

Wonder

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. – E.B. White, from Charlotte’s Web

Nature Holds Eternity

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Heavens Proclaim God’s Justice

To all my readers: I am trying a new Theme, one that changes color with each picture. I am happy to hear your comments regarding this change of theme . . . whether or not I should keep it or go back to the… Continue Reading “The Heavens Proclaim God’s Justice”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illuminate

What better illumination is there than that which comes from our God when we find ourselves in the dark are in need of light? The Gospel Acclamation for the Liturgy this day is:   Alleluia, alleluia. The people who sit in darkness have seen… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Illuminate”

Wisdom of Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle

On the Tenth Day of Christmas

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”