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Geoff Wood Reflection for May 3, 2015

Posted on April 28, 2015 by srdianne

This is how we set our hearts at rest . . . God is greater than our hearts. In the 1977 film High Anxiety Mel Brooks, in the role of eminent psychiatrist Richard Harpo Thorndyke, suffers from high anxiety – … Continue reading →

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Reflection for April 22, 2015

Posted on April 24, 2015 by srdianne

Seeds, Miracles of Beginnings A tiny brown seed can grow into a mighty pine, another into a beautiful flowering bush, another into a plant full of tomatoes.  As we are part of this web of life, our thoughts, gestures and … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for April 26, 2015

Posted on April 21, 2015 by srdianne

La Dolce Speranza On April 17th, 1906 the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso landed at the Embarcadero in San Francisco.  He was booked to play the role of Don Jose that very evening in the opera Carmen.  The welcoming caravan conveyed … Continue reading →

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Reflection for April 15

Posted on April 17, 2015 by srdianne

There is a divine idea, a perfect and complete idea of fulfillment for your life; it can be no other way as God is the source and substance of all life.                   … Continue reading →

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Reflection for April8, 2015

Posted on April 14, 2015 by srdianne

Jesus…. Here With Us They put him to death by hanging him onn a tree.  This man God raised (on) the third day and granted that he be visible…to us, the witnesses choden by God…who ate and drank with him … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for April 19, 2015

Posted on April 14, 2015 by srdianne

From Easter to Pentecost: a Season for reading Acts The Acts of the Apostles (the story of the early Church after Jesus’ farewell) reads like a Hollywood production.   The story advances from one crisis to another, here, there and everywhere … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for April 12, 2015

Posted on April 7, 2015 by srdianne

Missed Opportunities It’s during the cemetery scene in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses, amid all its memorial statues, that Leopold Bloom recalls the raising of Lazarus in John’s Gospel and there occurs to him an old Irish witticism: “Come forth, … Continue reading →

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Reflection for April 1, 2015

Posted on April 1, 2015 by srdianne

I Have Decided I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, Somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in The cold and the silence. It’s said that in that place Certain revelations may be discovered. … Continue reading →

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Reflection for March 25, 2015

Posted on March 24, 2015 by srdianne

We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the tall lily.                    Arrived on solemn grandeur of great wings, the angelic ambassador, standing or hovering, whom she acknowledges, a guest. But we are … Continue reading →

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Reflection for March 18, 2015

Posted on March 18, 2015 by srdianne

Primary Wonder Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluable and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antichamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes, caps and … Continue reading →

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