Seeing the World as Kin
Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.
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Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.
These days, we are all inundated with distractions thanks to the various forms of technology at our disposal.
St. Francis lived the spirituality of subtraction. He let go not only of his property, but also of his status, his pride, his ambition, his ego, and his need to be right.
As I’ve aged, my idealism and moral muscle power aren’t quite what they were back in my 20s. I don’t attempt such look-at-me kinds of fasts anymore.
I believe—I choose and keep choosing to believe—that God wants us to be one and will help us on that path.
To paraphrase Dante’s famous opening lines from the Inferno, I find myself “within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
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