Tag: spirituality
group name: gatherblessings
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January 12, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
Serene, uplifting natural beauty
gifted this day:
I stood bewitched
in awe
of silent splendors
twilight offered . . . more
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October 10, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
This poem is dedicated to John F. Walter, my inspiration to live fully. John, as you undergo procedures today, my thoughts, hopes, and devoted prayers encircle you. Friends, join me in prayer . . . more
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January 04, 2007 10:10 PM EST --
She's four years old. Just. Her name implies a virtue. After fifty-four years, I have not learned this virtue with ease.
As her family birthday party will not be until this coming . . . more
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November 22, 2006 11:49 AM EST --
We reside in a melting pot; a great democratic experiment where people of all races, creed, nationalities, political stances and religious persuasion (or none at all) seek to live together in harmony. . . . more
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June 09, 2006 07:28 PM EDT --
I had been puttering all morning after turning on the sprinkler to water the herb garden. I was totally immersed in finding places for more of our stuff from the move to this little abode. . . . more
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January 20, 2008 11:35 PM EST --
In 1997, I had the honor of hearing Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati speak.
It was a moment that profoundly started a great spiritual shift in my life. Unparralled with hearing Marianne Williamson speak on . . . more
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July 12, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
This past week I have been making runs to my sister's cranberry bogs on the other side of Carver for aged manure. Anne and her husband own acres and acres of cranberry bogs and in one of the . . . more
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October 20, 2007 08:30 PM EDT --
Last night a rumbling, grumbling northeasterner came thundering into town raining raccoons and opossums this side of the pond. The wind was screeching and Papa's windchimes, all four of them, . . . more
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February 23, 2007 11:15 PM EST --
My mother was a kind and gentle woman of few words. When she spoke, she had something important and profound to say. She had enlightened eyes, an old soul. She died shortly . . . more
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January 19, 2007 12:28 AM EST --
Romance: A Tale of Two Proposals
(c) Dorine Houston 2007
I was engaged twice, but married (and then widowed after 29 years) once.
The first fiance was from a town in the mountains of Andalucia, . . . more
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July 31, 2007 07:00 AM EDT --
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February 11, 2008 02:50 PM EST --
There is none like you
There is no one in my heart like you
I can search for all eternity long
And find There is none like you
( The words that reasonate in my mind during worship) . . . more
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November 18, 2007 12:37 PM EST --
I awoke early this morning, perhaps around four and silently went down the stairs in stocking feet. Going into the computer room, I brought up Gather and read my private emails. Then off . . . more
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April 04, 2008 07:20 AM EDT --
Did I ever tell you
How much you
mean to me
Starting and ending
each day like bookends
on an old worn shelf
content in each other's
presence, whether in
conversation or not.
. . . more
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November 23, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
I am from lighted spirit
and salted fire
from Eternal flame I sprung
from pungent marsh and regally draped oaks
standing tall and resolute in the humid sun
I am from emancipation to proclamation . . . more
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June 10, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
Over the past several months since becoming active on Gather, I have noticed the icons of many people... for the most part they represent the person they want to be or the thing that they most value . . . more
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April 02, 2008 07:48 AM EDT --
Sometimes....
Sometimes we search
For something Without
Wandering afar seeking
That which will complete
The yearning in our soul
Only to discover it was
Within . . . more
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March 18, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
In June I received an email from my good friend Harry (Ann Harrington), my room-mate from the year I spent in a Jesuit mission in a Yu'pik community. She wrote that our fellow volunteer, Mary . . . more
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December 25, 2007 07:10 AM EST --
I have no words this Christmas morn except the words of Isaac Watts (1634-1748) and images from over forty years ago taken in bush Alaska among the Inuit people.
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May 13, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Two days before Mother's Day, I called my older sister Fran and asked her what we were doing for Mother's Day for our 90 year old Mom. It was a ruse...unknown to Fran, her husband Fred was . . . more
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