The Resolute Woman

Category: peace

  • Mountains of peace

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    “Over all the mountain tops is peace,” Goethe once said.

  • Peace is active

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    “Peace is not a passive but an active virtue,” Fulton J. Sheen once said.

  • Peace is happiness

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    “Peace is the fairest form of happiness,” William Ellery Channing once said.

  • Finding peace

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    I haven’t felt peaceful this week. I have a tree to decorate, Christmas cards to address, packages to wrap. Even though I had a long list of things to do, my husband and I ate a leisurely lunch at the Dallas Arboretum with a friend a couple of days ago. After we ate, we took…

  • What is peace?

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    Peace is helping your neighbor. Peace is thinking about someone you love. Peace is sharing a meal. I found these definitions in a delightful children’s book by Todd Parr. It’s title is The Peace Book. How do you define peace? What can you do to create peace during this holiday season? –Joy

  • Mistakes

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    “Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.” That quote is on an embroidered plaque that my niece Alicia made. The message reminds me that I’m not wrong if I learn something from whatever I did. Perfection is not required! –Joy

  • Infinite dignity and worth

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    “The soul is the piece of us that gives each person infinite dignity and worth,” writes David Brooks in his new book. “Slavery is wrong because it obliterates a soul. Rape is not just an assault on physical molecules; it obliterates another soul. The soul yearns for goodness.” Brooks’ new book is The Second Mountain—The…

  • A joyful resting place

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    We long to be at home in the world, Norman Wirzba once wrote. “Our failure—as evidenced in flights to virtual worlds and the growing reliance on ‘life enhancing’ drugs, antidepressants, antacids and stress management techniques—suggests a pervasive unwillingness or inability to make this world a home, to find our places and communities, our bodies and…

  • Carve out moments of peace

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    It’s easy to be silent and still on a silent retreat. However, after I finished my silent retreat, I soon found, of course, that it’s more difficult to slow down after I’ve looked at my daily to-do list. I have to carve out moments of peace during each day. I remember what Thoreau once wrote:…

  • Content with silence

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    I found this short poem by Ansel Adams during the silent retreat I attended recently. When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. –Joy