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Wednesday of Hope – Which Does Not Depend on Hopes
Faith leads to beliefs, just as hope leads to hopes. Yet faith does not depend on beliefs, nor does hope depend on hopes. – David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is the Way
Hope is not just a feeling. Hope is a way of acting and a way of living. – Joanna Macy
Everything Is a Miracle
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
Wednesday of Hope – Dragons Can Be Killed
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. – G.K. Chesterton
The Necessity of Imagination and Art
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? – Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Wednesday of Hope – Virtue
Hope is not merely a feeling. Hope is a virtue, a firmly established attitude of the heart, a basic bearing of the whole person. – David Steindl-Rast
Love that Can Bridge All Divisions
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. – Henri Nouwen
Wednesday of Hope – Sharing a Common Destiny
To really belong to one another and to depend on one another — to really share a common destiny — is difficult for a community that wants to be diverse. It is also the community’s only hope of survival. – Gordon Cosby
Happy Easter 2018
[Writing of his wife Katharine, who was planning the planting of bulbs in her garden even though she knew she likely would not live to see the spring.] There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance…. The small hunched-over figure, her studied… Continue Reading “Happy Easter 2018”
May My Heart Shine
As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others! – The Upanishads
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