Just when we in New Jersey thought Spring would never come, the skies cleared yesterday, and all of creation rejoiced. I stopped by a friend’s farm and photographed a baby bull. The next door neighbor’s sheep was nursing newborn lambs. God is good!
Penitents take part in a procession of the 'Cristo de la buena muerte' brotherhood during Holy Week in Zamora, Spain, on March 30. Hundreds of processions and festivals take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
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Ultraorthodox Jewish men crowd around a spring as they collect water to make Matzoh, a traditional handmade Passover unleavened bread, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon, on March 28. Passover began at sundown on Monday.
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There is a living web that runs through us
To all the universe
Linking us each with each and through all life
On to the distant stars.
Each knows a little corner of the world, and lives
As if this were his all.
We no more see the farther reaches of the threads
Than we see of the future, yet they’re there.
Touch but one thread, no matter which;
The thoughtful eye may trace to distant lands
Its firm continuing strand, yet lose its filaments as they reach out,
But find at last it coming back to him from whom it led.
We move as in a fog, aware of self
But only dimly conscious of the rest
As they are close to us in sight or feeling.
New objects loom up for a time, fade in and out;
Then, sometimes, as we look on unawares, the fog lifts
And then there’s the web in shimmering beauty,
Reaching past all horizons. We catch our breath;
Stretch out our eager hands, and then
In comes the fog again, and we go on,
Feeling a little foolish, doubting what we had seen.
The hands were right. The web is real.
Our folly is that we so soon forget.
"Day of Promise: Collected Meditations, vol. 1" edited by Kathleen Montgomery (Skinner House, 2001)
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When a Flickr friend saw this image, she posted a song from her Girl Scout days:photo: ©marciakrausebilyk2010
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Sri Rosyati (R) and Sri Irianingsih (L), walk to the school they have run in a Jakarta slum area since 1996. The twins, from a typical middle-class background, have been the driving force behind the free education of more than 2,000 poor children. They have purchased the uniforms, textbooks, school equipment and everything else needed to teach the children. The twins have also helped open similar schools in 64 areas of the country.
There is much hidden suffering in the world: the suffering of a man who dwells with others in a room of metal cages; the suffering of a teenager who does not feel secure; the suffering of countless people who lack caring friends, satisfying work, a peaceful home, a safe neighborhood, clean water, adequate food; the suffering of millions who feel lonely and wonder if life is worth living.adapted from Henri Nouwen
A woman walks the snow covered path along the National Mall in Washington March 2, 2009.
Iron ore piles at Parker Point, Dampier, Western Australia. 
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Clergy attend the crowning of the Patriarch Kirill as the 16th leader of the Russian Orthodox church.
This portrait of Jesus was created by producers of the BBC program "Son of God," who took into account medical, archeological, and historical evidence from the time of Jesus. They worked with a 1st-century male skull found in Israel.
An artist blows gold powder paint on an idol of Hindu Goddess Laxmi, goddess of wealth.
Women pray at a tomb for dead guide dogs in Sapparo, Japan.
Paramilitary soldiers march during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade.
