Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Quote: Charlotte Brontë
Image: Mabel Amber
Tag: writing
A Prayer for Your Wild Soul
Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul. Listen to the voices of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers. Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your life. Listen to your memory and to the in rush of your future, to the voices of those near you and those you have lost. Out of all of that attention to your soul, make a prayer that is big enough for your wild soul, yet tender enough for your shy and awkward vulnerability; that has enough healing to gain the ointment of divine forgiveness for your wounds; enough truth and vigour to challenge your blindness and complacency; enough graciousness and vision to mirror your immortal beauty. Write a prayer that is worthy of the destiny to which you have been called.
Quote: John O’Donohue
Excerpt from ETERNAL ECHOES
Photo: Ann Cahill
To welcome Spring
“When spring came, even the false spring,
there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
First thought…
I wake up in the morning asking myself
what can I do today,
how can I help the world today.
JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL
(a network of grateful living)
Morning’s first thoughts. As the sun crests the skyline – do we awaken thinking of ourselves or do we reach beyond, praying for open eyes and softened hearts?
The world calls us to greet each day ready to reach out with compassion for all beings.
Advent after Advent
“It is while waiting for the coming of the reign of God- Advent after Advent – that we come to realize that its coming depends on us. What will we do either hasten or slow, sharpen or dim our own commitment to do our part to bring it.” Joan Chittister, the Liturgical Year.
(picture and quote found – ACTS)
Carrie's Bench 
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