Candle
This society we've built on fear and separation leads to people looking for escape by any means necessary.  Some use drugs, some use sex, some use television or religion or gambling or food or money.  The problem and the result are the same -- a self defeating cycle of isolation and shame.
St. Francis by Caravaggio
The Prayer of Saint Francis The Prayer of St. Francis is one of my personal favorites.  While some have derided it as more self-centered than much of his recorded work, and while it was almost certainly written by someone other than the Saint himself (it first appeared, in French, in 1912), […]