Loving Well, Praying Well

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“He prayeth well who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast,

He prayeth best who loveth best

All things both great and small.”

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge –

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week:

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Wiser Today

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“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Jonathan Swift

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The Art of Being Kind

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“So many gods, so many creeds,

So many paths that wind and wind,

While just the art of being kind

Is all the sad world needs.”

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox –

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Drink the Day

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“Set wide the window.

Let me drink the day.”

– Edith Wharton –

(We’ve had so much rain lately, drinking the day seems almost literally possible!)

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Soaring

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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

– William Blake –

Sometimes it’s hard to recognize your own wings, to appreciate them, to come to love them. Sometimes you have to lean on someone else’s wings first. But when you recognize and accept your own, that’s when your heart soars.

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Nature of the week – Lenten Rose:

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With Love’s Enthusiasm

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“From form to form, beauty to beauty,

ever changing, never resting,

all (in nature) are speeding on

with love’s enthusiasm,

singing with the stars the eternal song of creation.”

– John Muir –

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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I Have Loved

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“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”

– John Keats –

Look for the beauty in all things. Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week – a rhododendron bud waiting for spring:

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Deep in Winter, Deep in Me

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“In the depths of winter, I finally learned

that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

– Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” –

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Nature of the week – summer smiles from the “garden” of my supermarket floral department:

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Nature’s Wealth

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“Nature is not so poor as to possess only one of anything.”

– John Muir –

Notice how nature echoes herself in abundance. Trees, each the same but different from others, sometimes subtly, sometimes extravagantly. Flowers, birds, clouds, all themes and variations of beauty and wonder. Gifts offered to us daily. Ours simply for the noticing.

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Nature of the week – berries I saw on a walk in Japan: