Category: peace
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A simple universe?
“We yearn for the universe to be simple, to be one thing or another,” writes Lauren LeBlanc in The Boston Globe. “But it’s not. Its contradictory nature is integral to its abundance.”
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Count your blessings
A friend died. Another friend has to wait to pick up a new prescription until she gets a check next week. And a third friend has COVID and is afraid he will give the virus to his spouse. I am so tired of this pandemic, but I am counting my blessings. My issues are very…
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Be peaceful
“Peace is not a passive, but an active, virtue,” the theologian Fulton J. Sheen once said.
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Peace in your heart
This is a quote written by “unknown.” Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
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Peace in a world of uncertainty
This is the wonder of the season, author Kate Bowler writes. “We were living lives turned inward, and the God shows up and invites us into something more. Peace in a world of uncertainty. Joy that breaks forth. Love that prepares the way. And hope that waits.”
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The spirit of Christmas
I am going to try to keep the spirit of Christmas—which is love—as long as I can—into the days of the new year. Love and joy and peace. As. D.H. Lawrence once said, “The night was past and the morning was come….Joy and peace made a flapping of wings in each heart.” –Joy
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Peace on earth
Peace on earth? Sometimes, often, it seems that there is little peace on earth. I can try, however, to create a pocket of peace and quiet around me during this busy, hurried, cluttered holiday season. –Joy
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Be bored
I hope you have many peaceful, pleasant moments during the holidays—and maybe even a few moments when you are bored?! Kyle Steed is a Dallas artist and the author of A Kid’s Book About Boredom. He thinks we all would profit from a little boredom. “I think we could all benefit from times of—call it…
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Be happier
I am making a promise to myself to be happier and more thankful and more peaceful during this holiday season. F. Scott Fitzgerald once reminded us, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” –Joy
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Orange juice for the ear
“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears,” the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks once said. “It is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.”