Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
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Days 33-34 Our Hidden Gift
The hidden gift in caregiving Continue reading
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Days 31 & 32 – Becoming a Carelover
“How do we become care lovers rather than job haters? How do we move from gray world to bright hope?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 26-27 If Only for an Instant
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi We have a responsibility to ourselves and others to attend to the barriers… Continue reading
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Days 19-20 “Above All, Trust”…
“God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle – and my heart and thoughts.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Above all, trust in the slow work… Continue reading
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Days 12-13 Bennacht – A Blessing – by John O’Donohue
Bennacht — A Blessing — by John O’Donohue On the day whenThe weight deadensOn your shouldersAnd you stumble,May the clay danceTo balance you. And when your eyesFreeze behindThe gray windowAnd the ghost of lossGets in to you,May a flock of… Continue reading
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Days 5-6 High Flight
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed… Continue reading
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Day 366 – The Mysterious Gift of Terminal Illness
“The cause of death is life. How else can we make any sense of it except through story?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 362-365 Pearls Streaming
And I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year; “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the… Continue reading
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Dayss 357-358 Peace
"Nature was a mirror of the soul for St. Francis of Assisi—a mirror for himself and a mirror for God. All this mirroring effected a complete change of consciousness, a shift in how he saw reality.The outer world began… Continue reading
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