(photo: Mississippi River shoreline, Julian Garcia-Delaney, Minnesota, 2025) Nature is a very accurate reflection of our mental state. Look once, and you don't see anything. Look again, and suddenly you see something there that you didn't see before. What changed? Today let's consider another one of the Admonitions of St. Francis of Assisi. As I … Continue reading The Way to Forgiveness: Quiet and Meditation
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Why would I ever forgive that person?
(photo: Wild Geranium, Tom Delaney, Sherburne County, Minnesota, 2025) We have a small parade of deer stroll past our place regularly in the evenings. When I go out on our south pasture, I see the large matted down circles of grass where they have been bedding down for the night, both in the pasture and … Continue reading Why would I ever forgive that person?
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