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Reflections for a Slow and Sacred Life: Finding Stillness, Meaning, and Presence in a Hurried World.

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    The Gift of Motherhood

    May 11, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    On this fine May day, we pause to honour a wonder as ancient as humanity and as present as our…

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    On Carrying Beauty Through Broken Places

    May 10, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    A reflection on being lamplighters and keepers of grace To inhabit this world with any depth of awareness is, I…

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    The Quiet Rebellion

    May 9, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    On the Courage to Be Still There is a kind of nobility—quiet, unassuming—in the soul that chooses stillness amidst the…

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    On Pope Leo XIV

    May 8, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    A reflection on the resurrection of hope There are moments—rare and golden—when history bends slightly toward the light. They do…

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    On The Courage to Be Unfashionable: Speaking Truth When It Costs Something

    May 8, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    Examining the strength required to hold unpopular truths in an age of noise and conformity. There is, I think, a…

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    Healing with Michael Jackson

    May 7, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    On Daring to Hope – Reflections from Las Vegas Far from my customary shrine of reflection, the quiet, calming, breakfast…

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    Penny Lane – The unguarded moments when lives touch lightly

    May 6, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    Ah, Penny Lane. It’s a curious thing, really—how a mere song can carry one so swiftly back into the warm…

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    A Toast to What Is Not Ours

    May 5, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    On Cinco de Mayo and the Gentle Art of Cultural Mending It is a peculiar thing, is it not, that…

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    On Tending the Small Garden: How Ordinary Acts Sustain a Dying Culture

    May 4, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    Focusing on the vital importance of small, faithful acts in the face of cultural despair. Permit me, if you will,…

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    On Mending the Fabric: Friendship and the Restoration of a Fractured Society

    May 4, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    Celebrating how deep, loyal friendships can stitch hope back into our communities. Permit me a few minutes of your busy…

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