In This New Moment

Always!

Make Up Your Mind

Painting by Abraham van Strij 

Joy in the Morning

And He Believed

'Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb.  They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first.  He bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter, following him, also came up, went into the tomb, saw the linen cloths lying on the ground and also the cloth that had been over His head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in.  He saw and he believed.'  (John 20:3-8)

It Is Finished

Can You Watch One Hour.?

Painting: Nikolaj Nikolajewitsch, Christus betritt mit seinen Jüngern den Garten Gethsemane

When Anything Displeasing Happens...

AGNUS DEI

Spring Praise

Painting: Theodoor Verstraete, Spring in Schoore, in US public domain due to age

But Ourselves

Teach Us

Painting: Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing

To the End of My Life for My God

What Path We Must Take

Because He Has Made a Dandelion

'We do not have to travel the world over 

to praise the wonders of His creation.  

We can grow exultant over one wildflower. 

We can find reason to praise Him 

every day of our life because 

He has made a dandelion.'  

Mother Mary Francis PCC, 'Walls Around the World,' Poor Clares, Roswell NM

Photo © N Shuman

The Weaving

'My life is but a weaving
between my Lord and me.
I cannot choose the colors;
He worketh steadily.

Oft times He weaveth sorrow
and I, in foolish pride,
forget He sees the upper,
and I the underside.

Not til the loom is silent
and the shuttles cease to fly,
shall God unroll the canvas
and explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful,
in the Weaver's skillful hand,
as the threads of gold and silver
in the pattern He has planned.'

Benjamin Malachi Franklin

So Why Would I Wait?

Painting:Winslow Homer, The Whittling Boy

Uniquely Composed

Painting used: Piero della Francesca, Polyptych of St Augustine

In the End

What You Want, As You Want

'Lord, may I think what You want me to think.

May I desire what You want me to desire. 

May I speak as You want me to speak. 

May I work as You want me to work.'

St. Pedro Poveda Castrovede

Painting: Peter Vilhelm Ilsted

Rather by Prayer