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Let’s Fall in Love with Creation
“If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.” Hildegard of Bingen To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
The Raindrop Is the Whole Ocean
Well, a bubble can’t last long, and a raindrop, what’s a raindrop for but to join the throng? Somehow they were aimed for the exact same moment in time, and they got there together. Then they were – what were they? The bubble opened,… Continue Reading “The Raindrop Is the Whole Ocean”
Awakening to the Oneness of the Universe
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. – Teilhard de Chardin This month, on October 17th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Teilhard the Mystic: Exploring the Five Circles of the Divine Milieu,” with Ruth… Continue Reading “Awakening to the Oneness of the Universe”
Wakening to Oneness – We Are God Sparks!
All living beings are, so to speak, sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance. These sparks mere from God like rays of the sun. – Hildegard of Bingen
Helen Keller’s Words of Wisdom
So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. – Helen Keller
Wisdom from Thomas Merton
We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton
Seeking God
You seek for God, beloved soul, and he is everywhere, everything speaks of him, everything offers him to you, he walks beside you, he surrounds you and is within you. He lives with you and yet you try to find him. You seek your… Continue Reading “Seeking God”
The Beautiful San Francisco Bay
Today is the last day of the Church Year, since tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent. Our Psalm today is Psalm 95, and we read: For the Lord is a great God, and a great ruler above all gods; In God’s hands are… Continue Reading “The Beautiful San Francisco Bay”
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