Music: the Great Unifier
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Essays
Hope Depends on You
Find your reasons for hope and let them guide you onward.Jane Goodall Shortly before the new year, a friend told me about a book she was reading, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. It is written by Jane Goodall, “the world’s most famous living naturalist.” When I hear the name, Jane
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Deepening Our Capacity for Joy
Deep acts of goodness, joy and awe–the via positiva–are the medicine to combat the distress and despair that pandemics and other hard times can elicit Matthew Fox Here we are in the second month of the new year, and Covid is still with us.We all had such high hopes that the pandemic would be over
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In Praise of Dogs
God got a dog. . .And now Godhas somebody Keeping her feet warm at night. Cynthia Rylant and Maria Frazee I opened the paper one morning last week to see the heartbreaking picture of a Mom and Dad comforting their two little girls over the loss of their two border collies, Lola and Sunny. Lola
Uncovering the Sacred Heart in Everything
Yesterday, two of my dearest friends came for a visit. These friends and I had started meeting to discuss a book, but when we finished the book we discovered that our meetings were really about relationship and not so much about the book. So we decided we would continue to keep our monthly meetings on
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All Shall Be Well
When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what. – Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings “Life will be life.” is a sentence uttered