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March 9, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
March is a month of considerable frustration it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away. Thalassa Cruso Spring: so close I can feel the dirt on my hands and taste the
March 8, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018 – International Women’s Day
The great paradox of our lives is that we are often concerned about what we do or still can do, but we are most likely to be remembered for who we were. Henri Nouwen, The Greatest Gift Today is International Women’s Day and there will be accolades for women from all over the world who
March 7, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. Mitch Albom, For One More Day The day starts one way—gray—but turns around. The sun comes out. By the end of it I’ve visited the community garden (it’s still snowed in but—oh!—the sense of anticipation seeing it evokes); taken Maya to, and picked her up
March 6, 2018
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden I dream I’m in the garden: the place of promise, the place of hope; the place where so many lessons are to be learned, where so much peace is to be found. All that,
March 5, 2018
Monday, March 5, 2018
That feeling stayed with me for months. In fact, I had grown so accustomed to that floating feeling that I started to panic at the prospect of losing it. So I began to ask friends, theologians, historians, pastors I knew, and nuns I liked, What am I going to do when it’s gone? And they
March 4, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one! Gelett Burgess Remember Scholastic book orders? The fun of choosing a book or two from the newsprint flyer? The anticipation of waiting? The excitement when they finally arrived? And, most of
March 3, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way I come here empty and so, set a
March 2, 2018
Peacemaking
First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a well-learned. Thomas Kempis It gnaws at me after a discussion and I work for weeks trying sort it out through writing. Document after document, word after word, tapped out, deleted,
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet just when I think I can’t take any more winter March arrives gently, bringing with her buckets of hope and bags of promise. I wake, on this first day of the month, breathing prayer. May my walk be pleasing to You
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full
