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Wednesday of Hope – Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Perspective”
Wednesday of Hope – Infinite Hope
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Poetry of Life
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert
Wednesday of Hope – Forgiving
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. – Lewis B. Smedes
Wednesday of Hope – Hovering in Dark Corners
Hope It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills, it explodes in the starry heads of dandelions turned sages, it sticks to the wings of green angels that sail from… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Hovering in Dark Corners”
One Hundred Secrets
If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets. – Attar
Wednesday of Hope – Hope is not a Fairytale
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. ― G.K. Chesterton
The Heart of Wonder
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. – John O’Donohue
The Soil of Contemplation
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. – Meister Eckhart
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