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“The body is a sacrament . . . a visible sign of invisible grace . . . The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression.” – John O’Donohue in Anam Cara The weekend before Lent started, I noticed that I’d fallen into an old...
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And in that instant I understood that if I were to pay attention to the spaces between and just behind the things I thought I needed to look at, there was no limit to what I might witness . . . It’s not just the genius or the personal friend of [God] who...
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(this picture was found here.) This Thread, These Crumbs I want to explain how it feels – it seems to me that my life is held together by an unseen thread, a shimmering strand of gossamer, perhaps. And as I pass through each moment in time and space I am...
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I sat in the living room last week rocking my poor, sick, sleeping boy and watched while his twin brother explored a small wooden chair. He walked diligently to the book basket, chose a board book, then toddled quickly over to the chair. Placing the...
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But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. Luke 2:19 I noticed her as I passed through the small chapel on my way back to my room where I would pump milk for the two babies I’d left at home. She was standing at the front of the chapel space...
