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After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/12/18
The story below comes from an eighteenth-century Hebrew book.
A young man once wanted to become a blacksmith. So he became an apprentice to a blacksmith, and he learned all the necessary techniques of the trade: how to hold the tongs, how to lift Read more [...]
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
~ Blaise Pascal (1623 -1662) Some things never change. Read more [...]
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This is what I have learned: that what the wise ones discover, what some, though not all, of those who have been tenderized by life understand, what those who have awakened from the long night into the light of day come to see, Read more [...]
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I was taught that I had to ‘master’ subjects.
But who can ‘master’ beauty, or peace, or joy?
~ Kathleen Norris Read more [...]
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It is a sad day for our country when we trade the majestic, hope-filled symbolism of the Statue of Liberty for an ineffective and grotesque wall which both displays and inflames the ethnic and cultural divisions that have long Read more [...]
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If deadly violence can in fact stop deadly violence, then why has deadly violence not stopped? ~ Wendell Berry Read more [...]
We Remember — MLK, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
We remember that fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, drum major for justice, follower of the Prince of Peace, martyr for rooting out racism as a gardener for God, and prophet of non-violence, was assassinated Read more [...]
Holy Saturday: Living In-Between
"Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (Jn. 12: 24)
If we see Holy Saturday only in terms of chronological time, it is reduced merely to Read more [...]
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Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness Read more [...]