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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
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—Mary Oliver
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REFLECTIONS OF A PERSON OF FAITH
Your One Wild and Precious Life
​reflections of a person of faith
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
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—Mary Oliver
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Living Simply
I am happy to live correctly and simply: Like the sun--like the pendulum--like the calendar. To be a secular recluse, graceful And...
Gwynith Young
Oct 25, 2022
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Commitment
All my hope is naught save in Thy great mercy. Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt. Augustine, Confessions. 10 xxix....
Gwynith Young
Sep 23, 2022
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Paradise
You are faithful to your promises, and you will repay Verecundus for his country house at Cassiciacum, where we rested in You from the...
Gwynith Young
Sep 23, 2022
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Presence of God
For you cast them out of me, O true and supreme Loveliness, You cast them out of me and took their place in me, You who are sweeter than...
Gwynith Young
Sep 23, 2022
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What is This God?
And what is this God? I asked the earth and it answered: "I am not He" and all things that are in the earth made the same confession. I...
Gwynith Young
Sep 23, 2022
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Augustine on Prayer
And I talked with You as friends talk, my glory and my riches and my salvation, my Lord God. Augustine, Confessions, 9 i.
Gwynith Young
Sep 20, 2022
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A Barren Land
I went away from Thee, my God, in my youth I strayed too far from Thy sustaining power, and I became to myself a barren land. Augustine,...
Gwynith Young
Sep 18, 2022
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Returning
O Lord our God let us hope in the protecting shadow of Thy wings. Guard us and bear us up. Bear us up thou wilt . . . for when Thou art...
Gwynith Young
Sep 18, 2022
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Presence
But our Life came down to this our earth and took away our death, slew death with the abundance of His own life: and He thundered,...
Gwynith Young
Sep 18, 2022
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Repentance: Teshuvah
The Jewish practice of repentance involves not merely turning away from sin, but turning towards the dark parts of ourselves . . ....
Gwynith Young
Sep 14, 2022
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Imagining
She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its...
Gwynith Young
Sep 12, 2022
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Embracing the New . . .
The Lord hath yet more light and truth /To break forth from His word . . . From the hymn "We limit not the truth of God . . ." by George...
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2022
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On Discernment:
At the Plenary Council, the bishops failed to pass the document on women in the church. This led to great distress. Frank Brennan SJ...
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2022
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Being Property
being property once myself i have a feeling for it, that's why i can talk about environment. what wants to be a tree, ought to be he can...
Gwynith Young
Jul 28, 2022
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On Quiet
Favete Linguis! Horace declared. With silence favour me. The physicist J Robert Oppenheimer said that scientists 'live always at the...
Gwynith Young
Jul 28, 2022
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Inner Life
"It was not until I had been writing regularly each day that I understood the importance to each of us of forming, holding, maintaining...
Gwynith Young
Jul 23, 2022
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What God sees . . .
Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with his merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be. From Rumer Godden, In This...
Gwynith Young
May 3, 2022
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A Prayer for a Hospitable Heart
Jesus, the generous hospitality of your heart kept people safe as they undertook their journeys towards greater understanding, encouraged...
Gwynith Young
Apr 29, 2022
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I Am . . .
"I am that I am" means "I will be who or how or where I will be" or "Don't think that you can predict me." Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
Gwynith Young
Jan 23, 2022
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Working towards Happiness
Reflecting changing times, shards of memory, dreams and plans. How life changes! When young, we all have hopes and dreams--mine are...
Gwynith Young
Jan 4, 2022
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Good Shepherd
“Pope Francis addressed the Jesuit community in September 2019 in Mozambique and spoke about shepherding. ‘Great shepherds give people a...
Gwynith Young
Oct 22, 2021
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A Time for Dreams to Flourish: the Plenary Council
“The Australian bishops have set themselves a course and there is now no turning back. Now is the time for dreams to flourish. As the...
Gwynith Young
Oct 22, 2021
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What we ask of Church leaders
Frank Brennan speaks of the promised land of an ecologically aware future: "As each of us discerns how best to live and flourish in our...
Gwynith Young
Aug 23, 2021
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I Am
"I am that I am", the name given to God, should actually be translated "I will be who or how or where I will be." It means, "Don't think...
Gwynith Young
Jul 27, 2021
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