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May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Jesus raised our eyes above and beyond the narrow limits of our … lives, showed us other horizons, gives us a world beyond our ourselves. — Joan Chittister Blue Horses (excerpt) — Mary OliverThis […]
Stay — Jan RichardsonA Blessing for Ascension Day I know how your mind rushes aheadtrying to fathom what could follow this.What will you do, where will you go, how will you live? You will want to outrun the grief.You will want to keep turning toward the horizon,watching for what was lost to come back,to return to you […]
When we set that table, we would do well to remember that we are not the hosts, but the God who loves us all, and invites each and every one of us to the feast. — Kathryn Matthews Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter & become a friend […]
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Mahatma Gandhi You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself. — Rumi When he returned home to France, [Lafayette] lived on his big estates and did very well. He was in the same social class as the rich […]
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. ― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet The Meadow (excerpt) — Marie Howe Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among […]
