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Where Are You Going?
If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
So Much Has Been Given Me
Because I will be traveling cross-country, on my way to my new home in River Forest, Illinois, I am taking a break from OPreach for the month of August. So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that… Continue Reading “So Much Has Been Given Me”
For Whose Future Are We Responsible?
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw
Finding God
Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place. – Rabbi Elimelech
Rest Silently in Resurrection
Those who do not know there is another life after this one, or who cannot bring themselves to live in time as if they were meant to spend their eternity in God, resist the fruitful silence of their own being by continual noise. Even… Continue Reading “Rest Silently in Resurrection”
We Create Hope
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang
Advent by Stephen Leake
Somewhere your star-struck choir sings As the evening unpeels our histories. The world is here again! I feel the breathing of yuletide fires, The ribboned refrains of seasoned candles And bars of voices beyond St. Stephen’s Wall. The robin appears in a globe of… Continue Reading “Advent by Stephen Leake”
Gratitude Brings Consolation
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
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