The Resolute Woman

Category: peace

  • The opposite of love

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    Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born American Jewish writer, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2. But he lives on through his words and his deeds. “The opposite of love is not hate,” he once said. “It’s indifference.” He also said: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.…

  • Only love

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    We have been thinking about love and hate since five police officers were killed one night recently in Dallas, which is our home. And, we really like this quote from Martin Luther King Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness,” Dr. King once said. “Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love…

  • Faith and reason

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    Awe is “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that you don’t immediately understand,” says Dacher Keltner. Dr. Keltner, who says that his favorite emotions are compassion and awe, shared that definition at a May 31, 2016, Arts & Letters Live presentation in Dallas. He also quoted Emerson: “In the woods, we…

  • A woman who had strife in her life

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    In 2003, the actress Patty Duke, who died March 29, 2016, played Aunt Eller in a Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!” By then, the actress, wrote Frazier Moore for The Associated Press, “had spent a dozen years living in Idaho with her fourth husband,….seeking refuge from the clutter, noise and turmoil of the big…

  • Slow down!

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    I was too busy, hurrying, one day last week, trying to accomplish lots of things, marking items off my to-do list, when I remembered a lovely poem. I found it, and it inspired me to slow down a bit. I will not hurry through this day! Lord, I will listen by the way To humming…

  • What always changes?

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    All things pass, A sunrise does not last all morning. All things pass, A cloud-burst does not last all day. All things pass, Nor a sunset all night. What always changes? Earth, sky, thunder, mountain, water, Wind, fire, lake. These change…. Take things as they come. All things pass. I recently heard the Children’s Chorus…

  • A hermit in a cave

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    The last time I was in Tulsa, I went with my son Jay to his church—St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. That Sunday, Father George told the story of St. Antony, who was born in Egypt in 251 A.D. and who became a hermit. He lived by himself in a cave for more than a…

  • Remember to float

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    My very busy friend Kerry, who’s the mother of two with a full-time job as a senior pastor at a Methodist church, wrote recently in her blog that she sometimes feels overwhelmed and exhausted. “The image that has been coming to my mind lately of my life is of me treading water,” she writes. “Treading…

  • Mindful meditation

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    Mindful meditation can help you gain control of your own attention and your own presence, says David Gelies in his new book Mindful Work. What is mindful meditation? “It’s really the practice of learning how to be right here, right now in an accepting way with whatever is happening, rather than letting our thoughts carry…

  • The perfect myth

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    “There is no universal agreement on perfection,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “There are people who think the Sistine Chapel is gaudy and Hemingway is a hack.” Perfection, Gilbert explains, is aspiring to something that literally does not exist. Elizabeth Gilbert was featured in the October 2015 issue of Southwest magazine.