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Category Archives: miracles
The Flow of God: Living Water and All That Missing Matter
Let me begin with two fundamental tenets of my belief system: First, I utterly and without question believe the Universe we inhabit was made by a singular, living, creative, brilliant, loving God Whom I happen to call “Father” but you … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, particle physics, physics, prayer, quantum theory, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Astrophysics, Cosmology, Creation, God, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Living Water, space
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Giving Life to Art: A Profound Event
We didn’t know it at the time, but the summer of 1996 proved to be a turning-point of enormous proportions for the world – and especially our little corner of it – because that was the season when we first … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, health, Holy Spirit, Love, miracles
Tagged Art, Art Show, Cedar House, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, Gallery, Gallery Positive, VisualAIDS
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An Open Letter to the President-Elect
“I have often … in the course of the session … looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know it … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, health, Love, miracles, prayer, Rebirth, Uncategorized
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Amendment, Health care, Robert F. Kennedy, Trump, U.S. Constitution
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“Consider the Lilies…” 2016
How can you not give your whole heart to the unlikely miracle of the day lily, a flower, as we learned from Superstorm Sandy, that takes fully two years to form and then, in one magnificent thrust of proud determination … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, faith, miracles, Uncategorized
Tagged Cedar House, day lilies, Fire Island Pines, Gardening
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The Flow of God: Third Annual Posting
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…” – Revelation 22:1 This post is surely my most presumptuous, but perhaps the most important. It is perfectly possible … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, particle physics, physics, poetry, prayer, quantum theory, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, Goodness, Hope, Life, Light, love, Truth
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Common Courtesy, Political Correctness and the Golden Rule
Call me crazy, or addled, or pixilated, or whatever you like, but it seems to me that the American express has veered off course; the roaring of our engines is still robust, and the speed of our progress continues apace, … Continue reading
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Tagged Golden Rule, Great Commandment, Jesus, love, Neighbor, Samaritan, Seinfeld, Selfishness
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OUR COMMON HOME: What the Pope Said
I’m astonished by the Pope on so many levels. There is his proactive humility, his profound simplicity, his confident spirituality, and all served up to our little lost world in his mind-bogglingly perfect pitch. As both a lifelong friend of … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, health, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, physics, poetry, Pope Francis, prayer, quantum theory, Rebirth, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Air, Carbon, Common Home, Earth Sciences, Encyclical, Environment, Filth, Global Warming, Laudato Sii, love, Pollution, Social Sciences, the Poor, Water
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Act Three: The Garden Tour at Waning Time
In the early weeks, exuberant, happy growth pours forth from the garden. (https://inpraiseofangels.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/the-garden-tour/) By midsummer, a spectral reveal takes over: the yellows and oranges of the early lilies demur to the mauves and pinks of hydrangeas that, in their own … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, beach, deck plantings, flowers, Gardening, gardens, landscapes, Monarch butterflies, Montauk daisies, nature
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God’s Kaleidoscope: Garden Tour – Midsummer
Yes, I know the summer has flown, but I did promise, when I posted my “early phase” Cedar House garden tour a few weeks back, that I would return with updates as the season progressed and our gardens grew in … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, miracles, Uncategorized
Tagged astilbes, Atlantic, beach, begonias, caladiums, day lilies, deck planting, elephant ears, Fire Island, flowers, Gardening, gardens, geraniums, hostas, hybiscus, hydrangeas, landscaping, mandevilla, petunias, pool deck, roses
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Day Lilies!
My penchant for day lilies is not hard to fathom, as they were one of Mama’s favorite flowers – she of the very green thumb – and we never moved anywhere that she did not, as one of her first … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, day lilies, flowers, Gardening, nature
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