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Be Encouraged

It Trees Could Talk

My dad and step-mom used to have a weekly ritual of driving through Memorial Park Cemetery on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee and identifying what they would call, “The Tree of the Week.” Continue reading It Trees Could Talk

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Seven sisters and a Circle of Cedar

Seven Visitation Sisters were summoned to a devastated city in 1866 to pray. It was a request made by then Bishop John McGill. Continue reading Seven sisters and a Circle of Cedar

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Be Encouraged, Poetry

Change

I’ve been pouring through family records, noting dates, reading bits of stories in the midst of … Continue reading Change

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Look Around

The fact that you’re alive is a miracle Continue reading Look Around

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Loving-Kindness

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz, 14th-century Persian Poet Continue reading Loving-Kindness

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Life is short…

“Life is short. We do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So, be quick to love; make haste to be kind.” –Henri Frederic Amiel, 1868 Continue reading Life is short…

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A Force of Love

All shall be well, all shall be well…. For there is a Force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let us go. ~Julian of Norwich (c.a. 1342-1416) When the world seems to spin, when overwhelm ascends I remember that there is a Force of Love far greater than all of the chaos and it grounds me. Sometimes it … Continue reading A Force of Love

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Like Water…

Like water, be gentle and strong.,,, Continue reading Like Water…

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Home

“Home is a vulnerable place, the location of the most tender practices of human relationships…. Continue reading Home

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Clever or Wise?

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” -Rumi Continue reading Clever or Wise?

Florence BrooksMay 16, 2019November 7, 2022Leave a comment

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