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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
Proust on Truly Seeing
I have always appreciated this quote by Marcel Proust: The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Happy All Hallows Eve
What truths can we take from Halloween? First of all all faiths and all cultures honor their ancestors – those who have gone before them. So while the ghosts and the goblins (along with whatever is in fashion this year) take a moment to… Continue Reading “Happy All Hallows Eve”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
Mystery
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
What to Remember When Waking
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by David Whyte. What to Remember When Waking In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other, more secret, movable and frighteningly honest world where everything began,… Continue Reading “What to Remember When Waking”
Open My Eyes
Friday’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 119. And we read: Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law.
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