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Posted on February 16, 2020
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The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. – John Schaar
Category: SpiritualityTags: forest, john schaar, nature, path, photo, photography, quote, snow, winter, yosemite, yosemite falls, yosemite national park
Posted on February 5, 2020
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Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. – Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
Category: Hope / HealingTags: faith, hope, lake, mary jean irion, moutain, nature, photo, photography, quote, reflection, snow, yes world: a mosaic of meditation, yosemite, yosemite national park
Posted on October 6, 2019
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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Â Jalaluddin Rumi
Posted on February 27, 2019
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At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. – Christopher Reeve
Category: SpiritualityTags: christopher reeve, Dreams, hope, lake, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, snow, yosemite national park
Posted on February 13, 2019
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In a world of injustice, God once and for all tips the scales in the favor of hope. – Max Lucado
Category: SpiritualityTags: hope, justice, lake, max lucid, mountain, nature, photo, photography, quote, reflection, sierra nevadas, snow, yosemite national park
Posted on September 30, 2018
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. – John Muir
Category: BeautyTags: black and white photo, John Muir, lake, mountains, nature, olmstead point, photo, photography, quote, sierra nevadas, yosemite national park
Posted on December 19, 2013
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Presence by Stephen Leake Across the dark, a robin learns the Winter. A candle dissolves; frank and sensuous Against the extending light. The streets remain illegible with snow. I travel through you; uncurling Where weather decorates the night And naves of Christmas pines Grasp… Continue Reading “Presence”
Category: AdventTags: advent, education for justice, nature, park bench, photo, photography, picnic bench, poetry, presence stephen leake, snow, yosemite national park
Posted on March 23, 2013
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Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Rainier Maria Rilke. The Observer I can tell a storm by the way the trees are whipping, compared to when quiet, against my trembling windows, and I hear from afar things whispering I couldn’t bear… Continue Reading “The Observer”
Category: LentTags: education for justice, lent, lenten reflection, nature, photo, photography, poem, poetry, rainier maria rilke, snow, snow storm, the observer, winter, yosemite falls, yosemite national park
Posted on December 31, 2012
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The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. – Frederick Buechner
Category: ChristmasTags: frederick buechner, nature, path, photo, photography, quote, sixth day of christmas, snow, winter, yosemite falls, yosemite national park