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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Tag: reflection
Wednesday of Hope – Crumple Up Your Faith
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. – Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
Wednesday of Hope – Where Hope Lives
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. – Rebecca Solnit
Secrets at Dawn
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Jalaluddin Rumi
Wednesday of Hope – Tipping the Scales
In a world of injustice, God once and for all tips the scales in the favor of hope. – Max Lucado
Wednesday of Hope – Facing Life’s Challenges
Even when life challenges us, it’s a gift beyond all measure. – Parker Palmer
True Miracles
The true miracle isn’t walking on water or walking in air. Simply walking on this earth. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
May My Heart Shine
As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others! – The Upanishads
Wednesday of Hope – Resilience, Resistance, Tenacity
Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Resilience, Resistance, Tenacity”
Wednesday of Hope – I Do the Dance – I Must
Part of the Symphony I serve. I do the dance I must. I plant trees, but I am not the doer of this work. I am the facilitator, the instrument—I am one part of the symphony. I know there is an overall scheme to… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – I Do the Dance – I Must”
Creation – A Reflection of God’s Love
The entire material universe speaks of God’s love…boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God. – Pope Francis, Laudato Si‘ 84
