“To live is to be slowly born.”


Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Celebrating Everyday Spirituality

God Doesn’t Ration

Julian of Norwich wrote, “The fulness of joy is to behold God in everything.” The smell of plowed earth, the absoluteness of grace, deer tracks in snowmelt, futures free of the past, twirls of incense, children’s babble, wonder of breathing, contented hugs, contrite sobs. Behold God in everything. As today’s First Reading states, “He does not ration his gift of the Spirit.”

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