Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as… Continue Reading “Experience the Mysterious”
Be the Thing You See To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green and say ‘I have seen spring in these Woods,’ will not do–you must Be the thing you… Continue Reading “Be the Thing You See”
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly I find Chihuly’s work captivating. His canvas of glass is colorful, whimsical, and delightful. May our lives be as transparent.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. –… Continue Reading “To Be Alive – Continued”
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words. – Joanna Macy
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. -Dorothy Day May the seeds you sow bring forth loveliness.