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We got the best Christmas present. My sweet neighbor brought over five cocooned butterflies (I guess, “butterfly to be”). She and her husband have long taken pains to help caterpillars take that vital journey between crawling creature and flying beauty. We didn’t have to do anything with them, but just watch. Nothing important transpired…
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“The brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.” Be one of the brave….but remain attentive to your duty. Don’t get sucked into the hysteria of those who see a devil behind every rock, doom in every breath from…
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From Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude The solitary life is above all a life of prayer. We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also,…