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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”
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”
On the Seventh Day of Christmas
Let us bring Christ into this world as Mary did. The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds… Continue Reading “On the Seventh Day of Christmas”
On the Sixth Day of Christmas
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. – Frederick Buechner
On the Fourth Day of Christmas
When peaceful silence lay over all, and the night had run half of her swift course, your all-powerful word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven, from the royal throne. – Prayer on Second Sunday after Christmas, Roman Rite
On the Third Day of Christmas . . .
There is no rose of such vertu As is the rose that bare Jesu. Alleluia. For in this rose conteined was Heaven and earth in litel space, Res miranda.(1) By that rose we may well see There be on God in persons… Continue Reading “On the Third Day of Christmas . . .”
On the First Day of Christmas . . .
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming From tender stem hath sprung Of Jesse’s lineage coming as prophets long have sung, It came a flow’ret bright Amid the cold of winter When half spent was the night. Isaiah ’twas foretold it The rose I have… Continue Reading “On the First Day of Christmas . . .”
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