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Days 4-5 – Reshaping Our Eyes
TRANSFORMATION It could be the letter never answered, the one in which you declared your love in such a tender way, admitting to every- thing. Or when the shell you brought all… the way from the Philippines is dropped by… Continue reading
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Days 354-355 Blessings of Love
In the fullness of life we can experience the many nuances of love. The Ancient Greek’s were able to distinguish the various facets of love imbued in the words; xenia, philia. storge, eros and agape. Xenia is the word… Continue reading
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Days 347-348 Your True Inheritance
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. -David Whyte Love is the source of… Continue reading
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Days 333-334 For Beauty’s Sake
They were born at the same hour, same day and year, on June 13, 1935 but they grew up in different parts of the world. He was a refugee from Bulgaria and she came from a military family in Casablanca,… Continue reading
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Days 326-327 Hannah Wore Her Dancing Shoes
"The outcome of the world, the gates of the future…these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all… Continue reading
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Days 319-320 Hints of Gladness
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I… Continue reading
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Days 312-313 Ubuntu
"I am what I am because of who we all are". – Leymah Gbowee. Note: Today's reflection is offered by guest contributor Amy Martin. Sometimes in life we come across terms, phrases or concepts that stay with us, ideas that… Continue reading
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Day 305-306 From Darkness to Light
The scene opens with a young boy lying sick in bed. His grandfather is reminiscing with him about his life and childhood. He recalls his own father reading to him when he was 10 and ill with pneumonia. It is… Continue reading
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Days 298-299 The Prayer of the Person
"I would see you as my friend, / That I may remember you are a part of me / And come to know myself. -Course in Miracles In the early 1600’s in Le Puy, France a small band of women… Continue reading
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Days 291-292 Like A Welcome Season
Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." ~ Naomi Shihab Nye Leave the familiar for a while Let your senses stretch out Like a welcome season Onto meadows, shores and hills Change rooms in your… Continue reading
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