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… we must accept our own woundedness and then acknowledge our wounding of others, including the trees, the forests and rivers and all creatures of creation. The love that brings peace is …

… Get ready for peace!" The text carries us beyond the banality of the season --- the tinsel, trees, candy canes and Santa Claus. We're free from all that. Advent says: "This is your chance …

… Mwabachizi, recently spoke about her kidnapping by men in a forest. She had been tied to a tree for days and repeatedly gang-raped. The New York Times ran a story this week that quoted her …

… this exhausting year. With him as our guide, we find a bleeding man on a hill sitting under a tree “in huge sorrow”. It is Christ, the Bridegroom of the Church and of mankind. Thirdly, we … as a measure of what we need to recapture for the whole Church in 2008: Upon this hil Y fond a tree, Undir the tree a man sittynge, From heed to foot woundid was he, His herte blood Y sigh bledinge: A semeli …

… it flows, life will abound." "Near the river on both banks there will be all kinds of fruit trees that will not wither and fruit that will never fail. The fruit will be good to eat and the …

… air.’ ” “Hmmf,” he grumped. … But in the second year, there came the faithful miracle. … Tiny trees began to appear in the fallow ground, trees so small that one would be tempted to tell children that these were lived in by elves. … tiniest sprigs of spruce, a delicate red-stemmed maple, and seven baby bays from a huge mother tree down the road. At the end of the third year, there were two maples four feet tall, fifteen …

… soul-stealers, all. ...tWe are, after all, dependent on the sweetwater, like the flowering tree planted by streams of water... it is nourished by the water underground, and thereby yields …

… 10-mile race in Washington, D.C. He is also a gardener and especially enjoys caring for fruit trees. One of Callahan’s most notable accomplishments came with the publication in 1981 of Noisy …

… World War II many Jews thanked Pius XII. Some, he said, even proposed that a forest of 860,000 trees be planted in Israel, reflecting one estimate that Pius XII was responsible for saving …

… school if you stand where they drop people off, it smells really gross. There are a lot less trees nowadays, too. … What should everyone do once in their life? … Get together with a lot of …

… hears over time and space, brilliant cracking sounds as his body weight crushes the small trees as he falls. She hears her love’s labored breathing as he lies sprawled and broken at the …

… my best friend." I uttered a prayer and off he dashed, back up the Pile like a squirrel up a tree. For the rest of the day, workers accosted me -- desperate to talk, overwhelmed by grief, …

… were the sources of solace and nourishment for others: the flower and food bearing-plants and trees. Like us. Very like us after we’ve been through one sort of storm or another emotionally, … root cellars and walk out over the land, bending to see what help the crops, the flowers, the trees needed. The littlest children picked up the strewn boughs full of leaves and fruits. These … But, the handless maiden chooses instead to wander the wild roads where she is fed by fruit trees that bend down to nourish her. This orchard of living compassion belongs to a king who …

… with capitalism, populist party or no populist party: The gathering of the faithful is a money tree for the cities that win the lottery to host the convention. The Democratic convention alone …

… a lesson to be taught — to love oneself! … Marian Noll … Dark woods entangled deadfall aged trees endure. A sudden white amazement: radiance — white arms wide, held high surprising grace! …

… week was our visit to the Jesuit University of Central America, a graceful campus of palm trees, preened lawns, stucco buildings crowned with red-tile roofs, vast clusters of flowers -- a … day -- you are in a war zone. In the evening, after working the fields, we sat under the mango trees--at the beginning of my stay there were about a hundred of us--quietly eating our dinner … response to war as bombs rumbled in the distance. Salvadorans store their machetes high up in tree branches, out of the reach of children--but not quite high enough for me. Tom and I were …

… before this experience that Elijah was discouraged. "He laid down, went to sleep under a broom tree; then an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.' Elijah looked and saw at his head a …