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What is the Value in Creation?
I cannot look in any direction without seeing creations of God. Therefore nothing is insignificant, and everything worthy of respect and care. Nothing is second-class. What God has made is of value. – Paula D’Arcy in Gift of the Red Bird
On the Eighth Day of Christmas
The Star of Joy And every time I feel the shine I am called to follow it to sing it to live it . . . – Macrina Wiederkehr
On the Fifth Day of Christmas
What i When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal… Continue Reading “On the Fifth Day of Christmas”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
Can there be anything more grand than the magnificent mountains?! And we are fortunate in California to have one of the grandest mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevadas. Its grandest and tallest peak is the tallest in the contiguous 48 states, Mt. Whitney, and it… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand”
More on Diversity
Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon. – Ikkyu – Zen-monk poet, 1394-1481
Wisdom from the Zen Tradition
From of old there were not two paths. “Those who have arrived” all walked the same road. -Zenrin, The Gospel According to Zen
Wisdom from Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. – Nelson Mandela
Let Us Walk Together
From of old there were not two paths. “Those who have arrived” all walked the same road. -Zenrin, The Gospel According to Zen
Seeking God
God guides those who seek [God’s] good pleasure into the ways of peace, bringing them out from the shadows into the light by {God’s] act of will and guiding them into a straight path. The Qur’an
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