Ann Freeman Price

Prayer

I went to a five-day workshop year ago just outside of Boston with Kathleen Norris. It was rich. So is this quote: “Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine.”—Kathleen Norris

February 17, 2019 Ann Quotations I Like No Comment

SONG: We Need Plowshares

We Need Plowshares In Isaiah 2:4 it says “He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”...

February 16, 2019 Ann Music No Comment

Souls and Bodies

C. S. Lewis once said: “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

February 16, 2019 Ann Quotations I Like No Comment

Violence / Non-violence

I believe that today’s quote requires some thinking back through history and what leads to what and why. Here’s the quote: People try nonviolence for a week, and when it doesn’t work, they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries.—Theodore Rosak

February 15, 2019 Ann Quotations I Like No Comment

Life and Meaning

Here’s a quote from Joan Chittister: Life happens quickly but the meaning of it only comes slowly, slowly, slowly.

February 14, 2019 Ann Quotations I Like No Comment

SONG: People Want Peace So Much

People Want Peace So Much Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke the words that are the beginning of this song in London in 1959: I wonder when governments will listen to the people? Or, I wonder when the people will insist that their governments “get out of the way” and...

February 14, 2019 Ann Music No Comment

SONG: I Didn’t Know

I Didn’t Know My mother and I had talked together long before she died about her dying. We read books together (for instance, “Last Letter to the Pebble People” by Virginia H. Hine), we had conversations, we wrote about it in letters. And when I sat by her...

February 13, 2019 Ann Music No Comment

The Greatest Strength

Here’s a quote we sometimes have a hard time believing. It comes from the book Travels In a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall. The quote is: “The greatest strength is gentleness.”

February 13, 2019 Ann Ramblings No Comment

Getting Older

Here’s a quote from Madeline L’Engle: The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

February 12, 2019 Ann Quotations I Like No Comment

SONG: Peace Makers

Peacemakers Can you be one? A peacemaker? I love the last verse: Move toward the vision of peace now created. Stands in its center, move toward the dream. Touch the stranger. Banish the fear and feel wholeness, healing, there is a singing: Blessed are those who make peace...

February 12, 2019 Ann Music No Comment