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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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Don’t Just Sit There!
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Ursula K. Le Guin
Happy Thanksgiving
Gratefulness opens me up to receive the flow of blessing and connects me with the source of that flow. Rabbi Shefa Gold
Belief in Goodness
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good. Albert Schweitzer
What Do We Need?
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more… Continue Reading “What Do We Need?”
The Doorway to Gratitude
Attention is the doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity. Robin Wall Kimmerer
True Seeing
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Finding Art
Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too. W.E.B. Du Bois
The Great Book
Our children need to learn not only how to read books composed by human genius but also how to read the Great Book of the World. Reading this Great Book is natural to children. Thomas Berry
