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Advent Waiting while Looking Deeply
Look deeply into your life.Search out the hidden thingswithin your circumstances.The beauty is there.Comfort and forgiveness are available.Hope is always waitingfor you to find. – William Martin, The Sage’s Tao Te Ching At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting while Looking Deeply”
Advent Waiting with Gratitude
Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. – Sarah Ban Breathnach At Santa… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting with Gratitude”
Advent Waiting for All that Is Waiting for You
Excerpt from “Everything is Waiting for You” by David Whyte Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting for All that Is Waiting for You”
Advent Waiting in the Broken World
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.All things break. And all things can be mendedNot with time, as they say, but with intention,So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. – L.R.… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting in the Broken World”
Advent Waiting without Fear
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. – Maya Angelou At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting without Fear”
Advent Waiting in Faith, Love, and Hope
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without loveFor love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut the faith and the love and the hope are all… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting in Faith, Love, and Hope”
Advent Waiting at the Threshold
The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze. – John O’Donohue At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting at the Threshold”
Advent Waiting in Hope
And all shall be well andAll manner of thing shall be wellWhen the tongues of flames are in-foldedInto the crowned knot of fireAnd the fire and the rose are one. T.S. Eliot, The Little Gidding Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting in Hope”
Advent Waiting while We Weep
No wonder the prophet weeps yet –We begin again but not innocent…And we feebly watch for you and wait.Teach us how to weep while we wait.and how to hope while we weep,and how to care while we hope. – Walter Brueggemann, “Teach Us How… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting while We Weep”
Advent Waiting in Darkness
On the Feast of St. Lucy After the kingfisher’s wingHas answered light to light, And is silent,The light is stillAt the still point of the turning world.― T.S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton” A Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting in Darkness”
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