By your example

Candles 1 (2013, 4.13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world is changed by your example,

not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

More to do with beauty

Candles 4 (2012,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     but our lives will only ever always
     continue to be
     a balancing act
     that has less to do with pain
     and more to do with beauty.

        Shane Koyczan, To This Day

Questions I ask

RIC_2582-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

My story is in the questions I ask.

Maria Ochoa

Hope

Candles 3 (2013,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Dum spiro spero.

While I breathe, I hope.

Cicero

Being you

Candles 1 (2013, 1. 29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The privilege of a life time

is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Life

Blue Christmas at KRU 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Life has a practice of living you,
     if you don't live it.

        Philip Larkin

Generosity

Blue Christmas at KRU 5, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't live through life,

give through life.

Michael Powell,

A Thousand Paths to Generosity

Doorway to God

RC1_6161, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The wailing of broken heart is the doorway to God.

Rumi

Religion

RCC_8518, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Religion will be the medium by which people express their values for a long time to come, so it’s important to understand what brings out the best and worst in it.

Robert Wright

Light

RIC_4621
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

We light a light
in the name of the God who creates life,
in the name of the Saviour who loves life,
in the name of the Spirit who is the fire of life.

J. Philip Newell, Celtic Treasure: Daily Scripture and Prayer

Question to ponder

RIC_4597
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

What did you do when the poor
suffered, when tenderness
and life
burned out in them?

Otto René Castillo
Robert Márquez, ed. Latin American Revolutionary Poetry

God of Abundance

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

O God of abundance, you feed us every day.
Rise in us now, make us into your bread,
that we may share your gifts with a hungry world,
and join in love with all people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

When your heart speaks

RC1_9403
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Susan Campbell

Look into your heart

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for what has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet