tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41103403845122094742024-03-12T22:57:06.478-05:00A Trail of FlowersKindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.comBlogger1376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-72919898244391977382015-11-01T14:12:00.003-06:002015-11-01T14:12:50.364-06:00Meditation for the Feast of All Saints<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jesus Christ alone is singly to be loved; for He alone is found faithful above all friends. For His sake, and in Him, let enemies as well as friends be dear to thee; and for all these you must pray to Him, that all may know and love Him.</div>
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Yes, He does, at the end of the world. But, for now, while the world grows darker by the day, I can only echo the words of Saint Francis of Assisi which explain so much about the world as it now appears: "Love is not loved." And, alas, in that we all have some part.</div>
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We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.</div>
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Happy 28th birthday, Kollin.</div>
Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-37940896997640314472015-02-02T23:16:00.000-06:002015-02-02T23:16:21.287-06:00Velvet Shoes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let us walk in the white snow </div>
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In a soundless space; </div>
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With footsteps quiet and slow, </div>
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At a tranquil pace, </div>
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Under veils of white lace.</div>
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I shall go shod in silk, </div>
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And you in wool, </div>
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White as white cow's milk, </div>
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More beautiful </div>
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Than the breast of a gull.</div>
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We shall walk through the still town </div>
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In a windless peace; </div>
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We shall step upon white down, </div>
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Upon silver fleece, </div>
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Upon softer than these.</div>
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We shall walk in velvet shoes: </div>
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Wherever we go </div>
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Silence will fall like dews </div>
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On white silence below. </div>
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We shall walk in the snow. </div>
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<i>--Elinor Wylie</i></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-77005379653849326802015-02-01T23:25:00.000-06:002015-02-02T20:01:43.867-06:00Light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"...you don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be
of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small
lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out
into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth
from your room can go out into the darkness--if you don't have the
windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all
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<b>--Elizabeth Goudge in <i>Gentian Hill </i></b><br />
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-43731185437755631552015-01-04T00:05:00.000-06:002015-01-04T00:05:07.780-06:00Robin Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I heard the robins singing</div>
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with Spring so far away,</div>
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to sing for joy unseen.</div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-15036603824532087302015-01-01T17:05:00.001-06:002015-01-01T18:23:50.276-06:00Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">" A child is born to us, and a son is given to us: Whose government is upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called the angel of great counsel."</span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-74251502663540443582014-12-01T13:07:00.000-06:002014-12-01T14:48:24.317-06:00Feast of Saint Edmund Campion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have no more to say but to recommend your case and mine
to Almightie God, the Searcher of Hearts, who send us His grace, and
set us at accord before the day of payment, to the end we may at last
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Saint Thomas Edmund, pray for us! </i></b></span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-24844897713995445182014-11-01T00:01:00.000-05:002014-11-02T13:16:19.485-06:00Feast of All Saints<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Our Church is the Church of the saints. If one approaches
her with distrust, one sees only closed doors, barriers and fences, a
sort of spiritual police force. But our Church is the Church of the
saints. To become a saint, what bishop would not give up his ring, his
mitre and his crozier; what cardinal his purple; what pope his white
robe, his chamberlains, his Swiss Guard and all his temporal power? Who
would not want to have the strength to embark on this wonderful
adventure? It is indeed the only adventure. </b>--George Bernanos</span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-13955849863956192142014-07-22T19:35:00.000-05:002014-07-22T19:38:44.177-05:00Feast of Saint Mary Magdalen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man
should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise
it as nothing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy 20th birthday, Stephen. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear
foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we
are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long,
long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends
for which everything is sent.</span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-82221173406983606522013-07-27T00:00:00.001-05:002013-07-27T00:11:02.717-05:00Thankful<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">--Elizabeth Gaskell </span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-55362890940783591052013-07-26T23:32:00.000-05:002013-07-26T23:32:21.029-05:00Rightly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in
finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to
each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the
beauties of a thousand other men; by friendship God opens our eyes to
them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good friendship, increased by Him through the friendship itself, so that it
is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed is the influence of one truly loving human soul on another.</span></span></div>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-56003673292936539202013-07-12T23:27:00.001-05:002013-07-12T23:27:44.746-05:00Gifts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to
rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of
heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible
comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts
nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and
grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest
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midst of thorns – and the longer and sharper the thorns the sweeter
shall be my song. – St. Thérèse of Lisieux</span></span></h2>
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Kindred Spirithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741842101853438240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110340384512209474.post-18757767683590006502013-07-01T09:57:00.000-05:002013-07-01T10:00:05.229-05:00Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We beseech Thee, therefore, help
Thy servants, whom Thou hast redeemed
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