OPreach
Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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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”
Looking into the Deep Landscape
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
To Be Alive Today
It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world. – Mary Oliver
Joy in Unlikely Places
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike. – John Muir
