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Endless Possibilities

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. – Margaret Atwood This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting Times.” So this month’s quotes will be related to groundlessness and how… Continue Reading “Endless Possibilities”

Wednesday of Hope – A Road in the Country

Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

All that the Sun Shines on Is Beautiful

God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. – John Muir

Wednesday of Hope – A 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

Wednesday of Hope – Restoring Hope

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace. – Pope Francis

More Learnings from Nature

We can learn whatever we need in nature because we are part of nature. Human beings are part of Creation. We live by the same laws as all of nature. – Anne Wilson-Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds

The Journey of the Magi

I love this poem by T.S. Elliot, and so I quote it in its entirety, even though it is a bit lengthy. This is the last of the poems from the Education of Justice website. I do hope you have enjoyed them! The Journey… Continue Reading “The Journey of the Magi”

Even the Rocks Sing Praise to God

In today’s Responsorial Psalm – from Psalm 95 -we hear proclaimed: Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; Let us acclaim the rock of our salvation. Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving; Let us joyfully sing psalms to the Lord.