I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend. ♡
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Music “Ode to Women” by Empty Hands Music. Used with permission. Thank you!
“We respect and love all religions. We never put down anyone’s religion, or uphold one religion to the exclusion of others. What we want is to believe and respect interfaith religion, inclusive of all faith traditions. In our community spiritual practices, we invoke our prayers to the Divine, rather than invoking any particular name or form of God to the exclusion of others.”
-Sister Lucy Kurien, Maher
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“My dear students…any time you see a woman or a child begging on the street…the aged men left on the street, can you stop…and ask, ‘Do you need some help?’ And please call me up.” -Sister Lucy Kurien, Maher.
Photo by Stux, Pixabay.
“I have nothing,” she told her mentor, a priest. “What will I do?”
“You have love in your heart,” he told her.
“But with just love, what will I do?”
Here’s what she did.
-Sister Lucy Kurien
from: The Nun Who Has Saved Thousands of Lives From Violence
–by Christa Hillstrom
Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay.
“Maher means ‘Mother’s Home’ in Marathi. And she created the warmth of a mother’s home for the destitute, homeless, children as well as women. That seed has become a big tree today and all of us can partake of its shade but behind it lies such small stories of deep transformation.” -Sachi Maniar from Sister Lucy the Mother Teresa of Pune
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Graphic art by Niki Flow.
“Maher is a shining ray of hope for transforming our troubled world. This book tells its story, and the stories of some of the women and children whose lives have been transformed there.” from Women Healing Woman: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere by William Keepin, Ph.D. and Cynthia Brix, M. Div.

Sister Lucy Kurien, Maher “Mother’s Home”
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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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Photo by Jonny Linder, Pixabay
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

“There is a legend of a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor even conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. When a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come…” -Nipun Mehta, -Embrace the Grace, Celebrate the Infinite-
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☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.