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Tag: Love in creation

Divine love and a road trip to a kite festival

Divine Love and Road Trips

Posted on July 10, 2017July 11, 2017 by Michael Rose
This is another photo taken on our trip to a Kite Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada.   The prairies can provide breathtaking scenery. The contrast of dark sky and land with the layer of light between them was remarkable.   Despite being captured by a phone camera, traveling in a car at 120kph, I think it...
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  • Blind Faith – Merton’s Prayer
    January 7, 2015

    Blind Faith – Merton’s Prayer

    The following is a prayer by Thomas Merton found in his book entitled Thoughts in Solitude.  Thomas Merton was an influential 20th-century Catholic author, popular spiritual writer, poet, author and social activist.  A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, Merton was a prolific writer penning over 60 books and many essays....
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  • Small things with Great Love
    May 23, 2011

    Small things with Great Love

    It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. No rain in more than a month, the crops were dying, and the cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone and this dry season would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. One day while I was in the kitchen...
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  • 3 Lies That Keep Us Running: Chronic Busyness
    February 28, 2013

    3 Lies That Keep Us Running: Chronic Busyness

    Talk to almost anyone these days, ask how they're doing and one of the first couple of words will be: busy!  Daily life in North America is lived at a blinding pace and being chronically busy seems to be the norm.  However many are desiring to take a big step off the "busy" treadmill to take...
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