Living Each Day With Gratitude

Nature’s beauty can be easily missed. Louie Schwartzberg’s time-lapse photography, accompanied by words from a child and Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on living a life of gratitude every day. Cultivating a response of gratefulness...
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Delight — A Christmas Poem

Stand in the lowly place. See Jesus standing there. Walk with him. Be His companion in despair. Walk with the despised, the disposable, the left out, And see them face, to face. Delight in full kinship with the other. Love your fellow man. Love them all. The feeling is mutual....
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The root of patience

I wait On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. —Isaiah 11:1 I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten, with tough-soul’d anguish, while blinded keepers of the keys shut out God’s own. (If such a...
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Study 26: Trinity Sunday — Included in the Trinity

Recess: a temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity; a secluded or inner area or part. These contemplative studies are meant to provide you with an opportunity for recess, a chance to cease your usual activity and examine your inner self. A time to be...
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Study 21: Easter Week 4 — Primary Objectives

Recess: a temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity; a secluded or inner area or part. These contemplative studies are meant to provide you with an opportunity for recess, a chance to cease your usual activity and examine your inner self. A time to be...
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