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Days 293-297 – One of Your Angels*
Let David Whyte’s light shine into your life & you will experience the soul-refreshing presence of one of your angels. Continue reading
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291-292 Honoring Indigenous People and Native Land
The 2nd Monday in October is celebrated as Indigenous People’s Day to honor Native American people and to commemorate their histories and cultures. The Great Spirit Prayer Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives… Continue reading
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Days 286-290 – Mirrors & Windows
Behind every hospital window dwells a patient cut off from health & home. The mirror tells them what we must always remember: they are more than a diagnosis. If we look with love through the windows of our eyes into the… Continue reading
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Days 284-285 The Worst of Times, The Best of Times
Charles Dickens, in a Tale of Two Cities said, “It was the worst of times; it was the best of times”. Perhaps we are now living in a similar epoch as the virus, political upheaval, unemployment, and the environment crumbling… Continue reading
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Days 278-282 – Praying for our enemies?
Radical Loving Care calls us to heal even if our patient is hateful. That can feel harder for some caregivers than practicing curative medicine. And it is the calling of all who claim the title of caregiver. Continue reading
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Days 277-278 Reflections On St. Francis of Assisi, The Patron Saint of Ecology
In his 2015 Encyclical Letter called Laudato Si’—On Care for our Common Home, Pope Francis opens with words from St. Francis’s Canticle of the Creatures. Laudato Si’ translates into “Praise be to you” in which St. Francis praises God for all creation: Brother Sun,… Continue reading
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Days 269 – 275 Hope
“So that is the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.” HOPE by Lisel Mueller It hovers in dark cornersbefore the lights are turned on,it shakes sleep from its eyesand drops from mushroom gills,it explodes… Continue reading
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Days 265-269 – The Proximity of Paradise
The Proximity of Paradise What is the look of paradise? My angel’s proximity advises. They track me through the night. Continue reading
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Days 263-264 Protector of the Light
For a woman of small stature, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a woman of great influence, larger than life, she was a person who dedicated her life to the promotion, protection and advocacy of this country’s highest ideals. Known to many… Continue reading
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