@Nancy_K_Maguire@gregorykhillis Nancy, your book was inspirational. Donald Hall wrote a book titled: The Best Day the Worst Day about his life with his wife/poet Jane Kenyon. Together they walked cancer's unforgiving road.
In this rich treasury of prose poems on matters theological, spiritual, mystical, and everyday, popular author Brian Doyle offers readers a lyrical but commonsense take on the ways grace, prayer, sin, love, boredom, joy, suffering and redemption play out in our daily lives.
"Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon." St. Rose Philippine Duchesne. The trees do it every season-the colours talk.
and though it had never occurred
to me until that moment, for 12 years
our dog had held down what we had
by pressing her belly to the floors,
her front paws, too, and with her gone
-Ted Kooser
Francis seemed unbothered by the backlash his comments generated among American Catholics, saying, “Yes, they got mad, but move on, move on.” Pope praises Russian composer, tells American Catholics to ‘move on’ https://t.co/etwIQtZtAA
"Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present" -St. Philippine Duchesne.
Sacred Heart Halifax... incredibly 175 years... about to celebrate an inspirational mission- defying time and enduring to reveal love!
“When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme.”
Milan Kundera, R. I. P
Immortality