Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew. – Paul Brunton
There is light in the darkness. You just have to find it. – bell hooks
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things. – Hans Christian Andersen
There is a perfectly still moment right before dawn, when the sun gathers itself and then steps into the dark world and everything is so filled with light that any doubts from that long night are barely a memory. It is the way of… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – The Light Always Returns”
On this Feast of St. Lucy, whose name means Light – celebrated in the darkest days in the Northern Hemisphere, I’ve chosen this quote for those times we find ourselves in darkness, no matter the time of year or the hemisphere. We must believe… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Darkest before Dawn”
The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power. – Henry Crow Dog
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something “greater,” more “genuine.” But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Life Worth Living”
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.… Continue Reading “Longing for a Sense of Wonder”
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. – Maya Angelou