Because Today

With Great Love

Christmas Every Time

The Springtime of Advent

Mark the Season

Prayer Is

Painting: Elizabeth Forbes, The Leaf, in US public domain due to age

If We Do Not...

You Know What You Are

Let Us Begin

To Keep Burning

Hungry for Love

To Change the World

Painting: Mary Cassatt, in US public domain due to age

How to Celebrate Valentine's Day

Especially Your Family

Painting on graphic: Winslow Homer, Pumpkin Patch, 1878

Kindly Evangelize

'Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.'

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Painting: Louis Breton

And So We Pray

'To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.'

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Painting: Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Just Old

My six year old grandson is kind and thoughtful.   Truly, he is. 

Trying to keep up with him recently (not always an easy task), I explained my slowness by saying: 'I'm coming.  I'm just lazy.' 

Oh dear (I could hear him thinking)....  Could Grandma be feeling unhappy about that?  Why, such a thing would never do. 

'Oh no you're not!' he said quickly.  

He seemed determined to reassure me.  

'You're just tired, Gaga.   And OLD.'
 
That explains a lot. 

'I say we should look to the young, untarnished, without stereotypes implanted in their minds, no poison, no hatred in their hearts.  When we learn to see life through the eyes of a child, that is when we become truly wise.' (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Painting:  Jozef Israëls 

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Be the Good News

Mary Cassatt painting 1893

"If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families.  Sometimes it is hard for us to smile at one another.  It is often difficult for the husband to smile at his wife or for the wife to smile at her husband....

"It is easy to love those who live far away.  It is not always easy to love those who live right next to us.  It is easier to offer a dish of rice to meet the hunger of a needy person than to comfort the loneliness and the anguish of someone in our own home who does not feel loved.

"I want you to go and find the poor in your homes.  Above all, your love has to start there.  I want you to be the good news to those around you.." 

(Mother Teresa of Calcutta, from the book No Greater Love, MJF Books, NY, 1997, pp. 27-28)

Sowing Peace

"Peace begins with a smile.
 Smile five times a day
 at someone you really
 don't want to smile at... 
 do it for peace."   
                              
                                    (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta)










(photo N Shuman)